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Written By blrsri - 23 October, 2009
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Was passing by a so called slum which has come up adjecent to the ring road in front of PES engineering college..this was BWSSB property not too long ago..but a slum has come up in its place..
Or do we call it a slum at all?! Cos one can see a line of call centre vehicles parked on the roads along with the concrete mixers..and most of these houses have a DTH dish (SunDirect/Tatasky etc) on their mangled roof tops..the lanes carved out are of 5-6 ft wide and have pucca electric lines(probably w/o meters)!
So how do these slums get formed?
Its the local politicians greed for power which encourages such slums in various part of the city. The modus operandi..
- Identify unused governament land or even private
- Get a group of people put up temporary huts
- A karnataka flag with Dr Ambedkar's photo is put up
- A DSS or similar orgs board is put up
- The local politician sponsors a group activity like an pooja/orchestra for Ganesha or similar festival
- During the function there will be distriution of ration cards, so that they can become legal voters
- The slum dwellers by this time put up semi permanent structures with asbestos roof etc
- Another function after the elections..the 'kuris' will get hakku patra or land papers for their 10X10
- The slum flourishes..probably they will also find space for a small shrine
One other such slum is right next to the Mysore road TTMC in Guddadahalli, this space was originally owned by KSRTC and the land was to be used for building appartments for employees of KSRTC.
But now its a flourishing slum..thanks to the local politician whos vote bank is secured for the coming years!
How do we stop these things and bring some order to the situation?
We have the slum clearrence board to build homes for these slum dwellers..cant they swing into action and instead of give the land papers..cant proper house be built in a smaller area..going vertical that is..and use the rest of the land for other facilities like parks and public toilets etc for their own good??
COMMENTS
Neeyathi_hemmige - 15 February, 2011 - 05:49
as long as politicians lure the backward communities into the mainstream social community for vote bank politics, middle class communities have to pay the price of this.
one has to know that economic liberations or economic upliftment will not lead to mental upliftment or mental grooming.
that is the government has encouraged economic upliftment by granting reservations in all aspects of occupation and education, but does this lead to mental grooming or can he or she of such a background literally groom himself or herself to conduct in an educated manner, the decorum of decency is never there from such community.
For the sake of gainng huge majority in election, they promise to grant licenses on unauthorised land by converting them into slum area... etc
Only if we scrap reservations, votebank politics, only then can we expect some change in the society overall...
neo slums have become a social threat - leading to enormous social sins in respect to hygenie, cleanliness and general safetly.
How can we stop this? just debating over online or addressing the media is also not worthwhile.
The educated masses, the locals over there should join together and ask the corporator to take immediate action, but again i wonder how fruitful this would be???
murali772 - 15 February, 2011 - 13:38
this was BWSSB property not too long ago
So, now the BWSSB looks the other way? Would it be worth-while to raise an RTI query as to what the status of this property is?
abidpqa - 16 February, 2011 - 20:14
The whole of HSR could have been housed in a few multi-storeyed towers.
The new layouts should not have single-story houses. They should be made with multi-story apartments.
In the future importance of cities will certainly reduce. 90% of work done in offices can be done at home with broad-band.
update..super structure coming up..
srinidhi - 15 February, 2011 - 13:50
There is a bigger twist to it now..govt is constructing 1000 dwellings apartments there as part of the slum rehabilitation program covered under JnNurm!
They have relocated the slum dwellers further down the road in temp sheds..and again I see them everyday lazing out in the sun doing nothing!
On the other hand..there are hired labourers from else where working at the site building houses for them! Cant they use the same labour for whom they are building the houses for? After all they are supposed to be into construction themselves!
its 1910 houses for slum dwellers!
srinidhi - 16 February, 2011 - 14:26
Check this pic..its a whooping 1910 houses..
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