Buffer zones around water bodies across Karnataka proposed to be reduced

The Karnataka government proposed to correct the bumper zones for water bodies, depending on the size of water bodies, including tanks, lakes and Nalas. It has clarified that newly reduced buffer zone fixation is not to help real estate development, but to have uniform bumper areas based on the size of water bodies throughout the state.

According to the proposal, the buffer zone is tried to be removed for less than 5 days, while 3 meters between 5 days and one acre, 6 meters for tanks between one acre and ten acres, 6 meters for tanks between 10 acres, 100 acres of tanks between 100 acres and 100 acres of tanks between 100 acres for tanks between 100 acres for tanks.

For the channels, the government recommends downloading the buffer zone for the primary channel from 15 meters to 15 meters, 15 meters to 10 meters and 10 meters to 5 meters for third channels.

Currently, the buffer zone in the province is based on the order of the 2016 National Green Court (NGT) regarding the lakes in Bengaluru, which was later replaced by the Supreme Court. In 2019, the state government gave orders for the current buffer zone. Accordingly, the buffer zone for lakes is 30 meters, the primary channel at 30 meters, the secondary channel is 25 meters and the third channel is 10 meters.

In Karnataka, 41,849 lakes were found to be between one day and 1,000 acres. Some public services such as drinking water pipelines, electrical cables, roads and bridges connected to large roads, elevator irrigation projects, jack wells, pump houses and sewage water treatment plants are in buffer regions.

On Sunday, a note from Karnataka Tank Protection and Development Authority, the first example of the species in the country, the proposed bumper, Kundapura legislator and the uniform buffer zone for water bodies, the uniform buffer zone for water bodies were not fixed or fixed in the same way to be fixed in different states and petitions, he said. turning. Prime Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Prime Minister DK Shivakumar held meetings in which a committee was established to examine the issue.

Note found that in many cases in the UDUPi region, the buffer zones were larger than water bodies, and in other places, the buffer region was larger than the size of the channels. Tamil Nadu said that a 3 -meter uniform buffer zone was fixed, and the buffer area in Gujarat is 9 meters. In Telengana, a 30 -meter buffer zone is fixed for tanks larger than 10 hectares and a 9 -meter buffer is fixed for tanks below 9 hectares.

The authority, which summarizes the benefits of the new buffer region, argued that only projects that are for the benefit of public services will be taken without preventing the flow of water bodies. In several places, the declared buffer regions have special properties in which a construction zone is not in force, and that the proposed buffer region will help reduce floods in the city centers and help improve the infrastructure. He also said that it would help the establishment of sewage treatment plants near water bodies to prevent the pollution of new buffer zones and reducing buffer zones. The new proposal added that there is a balance between development and protection problems.