Name & Location : Pipliyapala Water Tank and Regional Park , Pipliyapala Near Rajiv Chowk A.B. Road Indore

Cost of Project : (INR) 58.51 Crores Built-up area : 172 Acres
(In case of Public Building minimum built-up area should be 1000 sq. meter)

Salient Features :

Environmental quality and resource efficiency:

Prior to this project the land was almost unfertile and known to be a wasteland with merely some palm trees in the name of vegetation.

The silt removals were done from the lake and fertile soil was spread over the lake front to make it more public convenient place and a good sweet earth base for horticulture work.

The entire area is earmarked as regional green land use thereby justifying the need of project in complement to the development plan- 2011 for indore metropolitan area.

The overflow channels are planned with natural contours that match the natural flow of water through gravity & also add as a water feature in the entire scheme.

Urban problems well negotiated through this project

“it is evident from hugely spread and shallow piplya tank that clearing and deepening of this long neglected area would yield additional and substantial increase of reservoir accommodation at moderate cost”.

Pipliyapala lake has a very strategic importance in the history of the urban development of the indore.

Traces of the thoughts on urban fabric and infrastructure development of indore date back about 200 years ago.

Sir patrick geddes, during his visit to india, submitted a report “town planning towards city development’ to the darbar of indore in 1918. Extract from the report refer to the significance of water resource management for the future need of the city. The park is about a museum of gardens.

The structural layout is derived from a town settlement pattern with a network of streetscape. 6 radial avenues lead us to the 6 km long lake edge promenade.

The main central avenue lead to the plaza is a celebration path. The cross lanes & pathways that run across help us take a journey through various plazas, squares and linking nodes.

The neighbourhoods here are in fact the various theme gardens, one gets a complete walk through experience of the culturally rich & traditional/historically significant man made landscapes of the past like the mughal garden, japanese garden, french garden etc.

The crisply manicured gardens include courts for display of several of art-forms like sculptures, painting along with variety of flora.

A centre for all, evolving the cultural heritage of the city, the park even provides spaces for performing arts like amphitheatre & platforms for holding vernacular workshop etc.

The rest of the part is a bio-diversity park, which attempts for an ecological up-gradation, acts as a medium to help in preservation and conservation of native flora and fauna also serves as a green buffer between the park and city : a camping site for nature lovers and to conduct nature-awareness programmes for school children.

The park is well equipped with basic amenities like drinking water facility, eating places, adequate toilets, dustbins, parking lots, accesses adapted for physically challenged people’s usages designed in sync with the architectural aesthetics of the whole park.

Project Benefits:

Converting the wastelands into a wealth of carbon sinks

Conserving soil and moisture to enhance recharge capacity of ground water

To improve the urban environment and bio aesthetics

Bringing more open land under tree cover

Making the Urban area more congenial place with enhanced quality of life

To conserve soil and moisture

Women empowerment through participatory homestead nursery programme

Bio-diversity is the hallmark of our nursery programme