Location-Manipal lake
Name-K.MOHANA SESHA SAI ASHOK
Registration no. 140904176
Batch U-1
Roll no.-10
It was early Monday morning ,we all students of batch one had to report in front of nlh. we were accompanied by our evs teacher and a sir who was a previous mit student and lives in manipal udipi so he knows a lot abt the place, he is a passionate photographer. It was our first field trip from MIT when we, the first batch of our section was taken to Manipal lake.The lake was previously known as Mannu Palla lake . After twenty minutes of bus ride we finally reached Manipal lake. The water level was high and the weather was sunny all thanks to trees around and it was further beautified by monsoon. we had to walk around the lake in that sun, but it was worthy we had a lot of fun and enjoyed a lot.
BRIEF HISTORY
Manipal, half a century ago was a barren land, two hundred meters above the sea level with about four thousand millimeters above the sea level with about 4000 mm of rainfall. The place witnessed a lot of soil erosion. Adding to this problem was porous ground, lots of heat and no natural springs and the place lacked continuous supply of water. Manipal lake is also called "Mannu palla lake" in local language whereby mannu means mud and Palla means lake.
NEED FOR THE LAKE AND ITS CONSTRUCTION
To prevent the deprivation of water to the surroundings, Manipal lake was made .With the help from civil engineers Dept. some ecologists and also the rotary club of Manipal hills,the are was developed, conserved and changed into not only a reservoir for water but the place also attracts tourists and localities of Manipal
FUTURE PLANS REGARDING THE LAKE
Production of electricity using non conventional resources and using the potential of Manipal water falls to its fullest were few of the plans so as to move on the way of sustainable development using the lake. And with continuous growing interest of the engineers, MIT professors, students, NGOs and