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BBMP now in tree nurturing mode
Written By murali772 - 19 April, 2011
Bangalore BBMP environment Koramangala Trees Citizen Reports Living
While doing up the footpaths/ roads, a few years back, the paving/ concreting was done almost choking the tree trunks/ roots, as seen in the pictures below:
When the Koramangala residents brought the matter to the notice of the MLA (Mr Ramalinga Reddy), it must be said to his credit that he immediately ordered the scooping out the concrete from around the roots of the trees, and pits be provided for planting saplings where there were large gaps between existing trees/ plants - check this. However, the job was left quarter done.
Finally, it was after the incumbent Commissioner, Mr Siddiah, made an announcement at this meeting that he will be rectifying the damage all across the city, that things started moving, resulting in the unshackling of the roots of many trees, at least in Koramangala, with some residents adding their bit to add more greenery, as seen in the picture below:
Good work - BBMP. The green awareness is apparently catching on.
Muralidhar Rao
COMMENTS
Double act of BBMP and draining city finances too
Sanjeev - 4 January, 2014 - 03:24
In todays TOI paper saw public notice of cutting trees at many places along West of Chord Road, Rajajinagar & some other places, more then 250 trees are will be chopped for madness of road widening.
few years back saw Sadhashivangar & Koramangala trees getting axed for sake of some road works, but has any thing happened???
Now BBMP is bankrupt in all way, so its trying to find way of doing business : Sell property,, Mortage property, cut the trees & we do not know whats happening in background in BBMP to create business??
Look at Garbage, Footpaths, Pedstrian Crossings, unfinished ROB's & RUB's, Underpasses to list many of BBMP mis-managments.
Still some of the city experts pushing hard for signal free corridors within city with elevated roads when BBMP is compelt BANKRUPT, that means BBMP will even sell the roads to some corporates to raise money, so that these Corporates / Companies like Reliance will have only access to it for Opticale cable, BESCCOM connections, BWSSB & others.
more trees on your street, fewer health problems
murali772 - 14 July, 2015 - 14:25
More trees on your street means fewer health problems, says study. Having on average 10 more trees in a city block improved how someone rated their health by a level comparable to an increase in annual income of $10,000.
For the full text of the report in The Guardian, click here
Indeed unbeatable logic.
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