{"id":115890,"date":"2021-06-21T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T11:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=115890"},"modified":"2021-06-21T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T11:37:19","slug":"singanayakanahalli-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/singanayakanahalli-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Singanayakanahalli Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Singanayakanahalli Lake was in news recently. This lake is located in which of the following state?<\/strong><br>a) Kerala<br>b) Tamil Nadu<br>c) Karnataka<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In Karnataka 6,316 trees have been proposed to be felled to make way for the development of Singanayakanahalli Lake, Yelahanka Hobli.<\/li><li>Citizens and environmentalists are not happy with this decision to destroy an ecosystem to create a new one.<\/li><li>Actually the resentment emerged by the Minor Irrigation Department\u2019s proposal to clear over 6,000 trees.<\/li><li>These trees have to be cleared in Singanayakanahalli to make way for a lake under the Hebbal-Nagawara Valley Project.<\/li><li>According to a recent notification by the Forest Department, of Karnataka trees have to be cleared for unobstructed commencement of the project.<\/li><li>The notification, published on June 14, has invited objections via email or post within 10 days from its publication.<\/li><li>However, citizen activists are questioning the logic behind removing such a huge number of trees.<\/li><li>It should be known that the area is known for a large peacock habitat.<\/li><li>Environmentalist Vijay Nishanth expressed his concern that if large number of trees cleared it could wipe out entire peacock population from this area.<\/li><li>The Hebbal-Nagawara Valley Project aims to fill 65 tanks in Bengaluru Urban, Rural and Chickballapur.<\/li><li>It should be known that Bangaluru Lake became the first to receive treated water from the project.<\/li><li>Bangaluru Lake meant to act as an impounded reservoir to supply water to 11 other lakes in the region.<\/li><li>Though direct use of treated water for drinking and agricultural purposes has been prohibited.<\/li><li>Farmers in the area were largely optimistic of the project pushing up the water table.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/hebbal-nagawara-valley-project-over-6000-trees-face-the-axe\/article34835202.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/hebbal-nagawara-valley-project-over-6000-trees-face-the-axe\/article34835202.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Singanayakanahalli Lake was in news recently. This lake is located in which of the following state?a) Keralab) Tamil Naduc) Karnatakad) None of theseAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- In Karnataka 6,316 trees have been proposed to be felled to make way for the development of Singanayakanahalli Lake, Yelahanka Hobli. Citizens and environmentalists are not happy with this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":115891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-115890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115892,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115890\/revisions\/115892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}