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By Express News ServiceBENGALURU: Around 300 people, including employees of JP Morgan, pourakarmikas from Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and locals of ward number 153 joined hands on Saturday to clean up Byrasandra Lake and its surroundings. Members of RBI Employees Housing Colony Welfare Association, Tilak Nagar Residents Welfare Association and United Way Bengaluru, along with former mayor and corporator Gangambika Mallikarjun also participated. One of the entrances of the lake also serves as a lorry and garbage compactor parking lot, which the BBMP said it will look into. Corporator Gangambike said that since most people living near the lake are economically weak, it is important to educate them. Venkat Subbarao, Retd RBI General Manager and former president of RBI Employees Housing Colony Welfare Association, said the problem now is that the inlets and outlets were all blocked by garbage and silt..