Clean-up drive at Langar Houz Lake

Langar Houz: About 40 volunteers comprising IT employees, students, lawyers, medicos and the aged cleaned the Langer Houz Lake during the weekend.

The lake was filled with garbage, sewage water and water hyacinth. Every Saturday they conduct cleaning drive from 8am to 10am at the lake. Spread over 40 acres, 23mld sewage water enters the lake every day. The lake was once clean and free of pollution and dates back 450 years.

On weekends, Madhulika Choudhary of Dhruvansh, an NGO, coordinates the activities. The volunteers also clean up Neknampur Lake in Neknampur and Yerrakunta in Shaikpet.