Expansion of the stormwater drainage from Chakalavani Cheruvu, as planned by GHMC towards prevention of flooding underneath the railway underpass at Lingampally, could prove to be a blessing for several encroachers who cleared the land and raised structures right in the lake bed.
Encroachments are rampant not only in the Chakalavani Cheruvu from which surplus water floods the high traffic road, but also within the Gopi Cheruvu upstream, from where the excess water flows here. Going by the satellite historical imagery, most of the encroachments are pretty recent, and happened over the past couple of years.
