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Written By idontspam - 29 November, 2010
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Footpaths: This film was made by Samarth Saran, Saumya Tyagi and Bharat Sharma — a team of three people from the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore who took part in the short-film making competition held at IIM Ahmedabad’s flagship management festival Confluence 2010. The competition was titled ‘Campaign for a cause’ and it had to study whether government policies really reached their target population
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rs - 30 November, 2010 - 07:38
Its an interesting documentary - it also highlights the pig-headedness of the BBMP officer Gopalswamy who seems to have very little idea or is in denial that there is a problem and has some absurd idea that there is a squad actively fixing every crack in the footpath and will respond to a citizens complaint ! Okay - it might be true that there is a such a squad though I havent seen it in action.
His comment about public encroachment also shows his denial of reality. I have complained several times about use of the footpath for dumping building materials - I acutally took photos and gave them to the BBMP with a hand-written letter. Nothing was done till the building construction was over.
Ramesh
Ravi_D - 30 November, 2010 - 08:30
We are an aspiring (and for some already) world-class city after all. Cars rule. How can you be world class if you get to watch the poor pedestrians by the road side when driving by? Scare them away.
ananth.bangalore - 1 December, 2010 - 02:56
Just curious- say it is a 60 x 40 site (like many in Banashankari's commercial areas for eg., opposite Annakutira and near Big bazar) and someone is constructing there. The government regulations might allow for 5' in the front as the setback in these high density areas.Infact, i have seen most buildings along that road touching or almost touching eachother. Suppose you were to build here in this site, where would you dump the building material? is there some alternative one can work with? especially when the front pillar will be set about 5-7 feet inside the site, but the excavation for the pillar foundation will be 3 feet around the pillar, there is just no space to dump the materials required. Also, when excavating, loads of soil is removed from these trenches and these occupy the site until removed or used to back-fill into the pits after the pillars are cast. So whats the solution here?
idontspam - 1 December, 2010 - 18:27
but usually there is no place to temporarily place dumsters or trailers.
Most construction containers only occupies 8 feet on the street which is equivelant to the width of a car parked along the sidewalk.
Example
Illustration
idontspam - 30 November, 2010 - 06:25
Very good documentary, must see. While I do not agree high barricades are a hinderance to crossing I agree there arent enough cross over points on arterial roads so people end up crossing over the barriers.
Even crossing a 30 ft road ON zebra lines are dangerous especially for senior citizens as the vehicles dont stop for pedestrians
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