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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
Final Letter from BBMP - RTI Reply on the Tree choke issue
dvsquare - 20 September, 2011 - 13:42
I am attaching here the final letter from BBMP, this one from Assistant Executive Engineer, Jayanagar Sub Division, BBMP, Bangalore
http://www.scribd.com/doc/65640508/BBMP-Tree-RTI-Final-Reply
Deepak
rs - 31 January, 2012 - 08:17
Perhaps this is the correct way to provide watering area for trees. At 15000 a pop I'm sure they could use metal grills. This way the tree is protected and the space around it can be used for walking - unlike the concrete structures they make now - which hog the footpath.
BBMP engg has done all the mindless work
dvsquare - 31 January, 2012 - 09:31
I have seen in the whole of koramangala or any other region for that matter, I know, after I first posted comment here and a few pics, BBMP has made more efforts to create this watering area around many (most) of the trees in Bangalore. But then again, as a mindless workers or engineers, they have just created 3x3 or some measurement area around the tree, not at all thinking about how the pedestrians will walk on that 5cm thin strip on one side. They could have made the area but could have just covered that area on one side with some small slab so as to make pedestrians walk without hurting themselves. Many a places (I have witnessed in koramangala), people walking on the road instead of broad footpaths because of all mindless work by BBMP.
BBMP is trying to tell us - what do you want - Footpath to walk or Trees conservation or Road widening? They can't give us a good reasonable of each, making sure that pedestrians can walk safe as well as maintaining ecospace.
Hope, wisdom prevails soon in BBMP staff.
Deepak
rs - 31 August, 2011 - 12:56
Winner of the `Not my job competition' - taken at 10th A Main, Malleswaram.
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