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Written By tsubba - 26 May, 2008
BJP is set to form the govt. But still, there are doubts about the sustainability of its govt., because of the million and one things that can go wrong. Those calculations are beyond my depth. But hoping that this govt. will last a considerable period of time, what are your expectations from the government, irrespective of whether you voted for it nor not? What would you like the govt. to do for bangalore? I will start with my top two wishes. Water is my top wish. and yedi has made some noises about it already with talk of bringing hemavathy to blr. artificially increasing the supply of water in bangalore is not a solution to bangalore's water crisis at all when, bangalore's internal sources have dried up and sources in its neighbourhood are politically constrained. IMO, in the long run it will be more beneficial if the arkvathy and the lakes of bangalore revived and policies on increasing the level of ground water tables are in place. Also, this solution is also shorted sighted as far as politics is concerned. On appearances you are not pumping from cauvery downstream. But hemavathy is a tributary of cauvery and pretty soon you will hit the 0.83 tmc for towns and cities down stream of bangalore wall. then what? sustainability comes from responsibility not pandering. In any case politically, water is going to haunt the new CM. Assembly elections in KA are over. But elections are due in TN and at center. So make no mistake, this issue will be milked to the maximum in the run up to those elections. Hoggenkal II is going to play out. The second issue is: Yedi has made some noises about making a maadari-city out of bangalore. I hope this does not mean that more time will be lost in rediscovering and reinventing brand new solutions on account of either hubris or vendetta. Some important solutions have already been tabled, they only have to be implemented now. For example, the various projects proposed in the Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Plan (CTTP). CTTP itself is a part of the requirement for NURM. A lot of time has already been lost on its clock. There are some deficiencies that Naveen and others have highlighted, but the basic elements of a solution are already there in that plan. The last thing that the new government should now do is to open up a new can of worms, and insist on redoing the solution completely. Hopefully we dont end up revisiting those debates on mono/metro all over again. There is a whole list of such big impact solutions, by various B* agencies, that have already been DPR-ed for JNNURM. However, many of these proprosals are on hold at the center because there has been no elected local council for close to two years now. So the first minimal step will be to hold elections for local bodies. A better first step would be to simultaneously start the process for implementation of the Dr. Kasturirangan Committe report. While the report has already been submitted, there is some due process and legal issues that need to be addressed inorder to bring its recomendations to force. Let the solutions come from bottom by people who are paid to think about them. you please work on building mechanisms that will help in implementing the solutions. I am done with my request. Your turn.
COMMENTS
shridhar - 26 May, 2008 - 04:42
My top three things for Bangalore
silkboard - 26 May, 2008 - 04:58
Two of these things were on BJP's manifesto for Bengaluru
- Adapt Kasturirangan committee report for Bangalore. quick public debate etc to fine tune it, and then implementation. Once implemented, Bangalore MPC will take care of solving all other things we expect new govt to solve. (possibly even including the two things I am going to mention below)
- Push to public transport. If this falls in Bangalore MPC's jurisdiction, then we can wait. But if not, or if Bangalore MPC will take time a long to form, please - push public transport over mindless road widening, flyover and elevated road projects. BJP had talked about strengthening BMLTA, will eagerly wait for some action there.
- Take back that atrocious document called masterplan-2015. Everyone is complaining of congestion and uncontrolled growth, and lack of general byelaw enforcement by BBMP, and some ambitious folks have decided to raise FAR, and do away with zoning norms. That document needs serious public debate and re-work.
blrsri - 26 May, 2008 - 05:12
For Bangalore:
Train to airport by 2010
Metro ph I by 2010
underpasses everywhere
For Karnataka:
Improve education
Better train/road infrastructure (blr/hassan line completion..good roads in Sedam etc)
Development of manufacturing facilities
fightcorruption.co.in - 26 May, 2008 - 05:30
1. Connectivity to the new aiport and complete support for BIA (Albert Brunner), implement new plans.
2. Completion of Metro, NICE and Elevated Expressway projects.
3. Good Roads and a comprehensive implementation of Traffic ethics in bangalore
Bangalore Chose you, Karanataka chose you. Please dont let us down.
On a serious note. Yeddi was the one who objected the hognekkal Dam project, now that he is in power and Karuna just yesterday telling to speed up a bit. This is going to be one major issue that will disrupt the two states again. Tn Govt being Congress allie, things are going to boil over.
narayan82 - 26 May, 2008 - 03:43
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