About 420 acres of Biodiversity Park will be developed in three villages — Damdama, Khedla and Abhaypur — of Gurugram. The project was formally started by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today.

He said that the government is making efforts to make this area a centre of attraction for tourists. Damdama Lake will be restored to about 80 acres.

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The CM said that apart from the development of a Biodiversity Park and Lake, it is also proposed to make a jungle safari in about 10,000 acres in the Aravalli hills in Gurugram and Nuh districts. This will also promote tourism and employment opportunities will be available to the people.

The Biodiversity Park will be developed in four phases. In the first phase, along with studying the plants and soil of the area, the construction of a nursery and cleaning of the lake will be done.

In the second phase, watershed management and tree plantation will be started, in the third phase the lake will be developed and in the fourth phase, the plantation will be done. He said that the renovation of Damdama Lake would be completed in four years and the work of developing Biodiversity Park would be completed in 10 years.

Meanwhile, the CM called upon everyone to save water. “Each one of us has to manage the utilization of available water and make good use of it, otherwise, future generations will have to face the scarcity of water,” he added.

Khattar said that the underground water level is continuously depleting and if it continues to decrease, there will be a shortage of water in future.

That is why everyone has to be aware and do their part in saving and harvesting water. This is not a political issue, but a matter related to life, so everyone should work jointly to save water and plant more and more trees, he added.

“We can use treated water for agriculture, irrigation etc. Now a double water pipe line is being laid in the new colonies, in which clean drinking water will come in one line and treated water will be supplied in the other. Treated water will also be supplied in industries,” added Khattar.