Sarakki lake is a lake in the southern part of Bengaluru, India, in the suburb of the J. P. Nagar. It is one of the largest lakes in Bangalore and located on

Puttenahalli Puttenahalli is a suburban area in Bangalore, Karnataka State in India. Uninfluenced by its neighbouring town Bangalore's growth to a metropolitan city, Puttanahalli remained as a rural area until the 1970s. But because of the increasing expa ...

main road. Sarakki is a

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordsKannada language Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native ...

words, ''Saavira Hakki'', which translates to "a thousand birds". The lake formerly covered an area of , of which had been encroached by private builders and other establishments as of 2013. According to a survey conducted by the tehsildar of Bangalore South, 135 encroachments were made into the lake area, following which the

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, in the case filed by the People's Campaign for Right to water, ordered for clearing the encroached area in August 2014. A 10-day eviction drive began in April 2015 after having issued notices to encroachers. The land reclaimed put estimates at . In 2012, the Sarakki Lake Improvement Trust (SLAIT) was formed to make efforts towards reviving the lake.

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