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Please do not plan to settle down in Bengaluru, it is dying.
Written By Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 8 November, 2009
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All those dear Indians and others from all over the world,
Please do not mistake this post. This is for your own good and ours too; while the final choice is yours, have a look at the bleak future you may face if you come and settle down:
Source: Deccan Chronicle-front page-todate:
Nutshell: RITES Report -
Our beloved Bengaluru is headed for a disaster and do not be a part of it:
- 2001 Population 61 lakh, likely to touch 88 lakh in 2015 and 1.22 crore by 2025 or earlier
- 3.25 per cent increase is the annual growth rate of population
- 2400 kms is the present and future road net work that cannot be increased any more
- 28 lakh is the number of registered motor vehicles on road
- 240 hours is the number of hours that you get stuck in traffic jam
- 13.5 km is the average speed one can travel on Bengaluru roads
- 46 per cent is the modal split in favor of BMTC and is estimated to fall below 29 per cent by 2025.
- 3.6 (the lowest) is the figure of walking index on national index for pedestrian traffic in core areas with highly inadequate and deteriorating by the day.
Think about these draw backs that result in your productivity, poorer air quality, reduced quality of life and increased costs for services and goods.
Final choice is yours; however, do visit namma Bengaluru
- Bengaluru has become a future city with no 'future'.
Vasanth Mysoremath
COMMENTS
Bengaluru is dying - it is official - 4 parts Bangalore Mirror
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 8 July, 2016 - 14:06
Hi Prajas,
Bangalore Mirror has carried 4 parts article during this week about how Namma Bengaluru is dying and has become UNLIVABLE. Prajas had live discussion between 6th November 2009 and September 2013 and the prediction is becoming true. What next? Will the authorities ban registration of 1500 vehicles per day? Will there be embargo on influx of Indians to Bengaluru? Will there be a Sin Tax or Polluter Pays Tax on all outsiders?
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath
amithpallavoor - 10 July, 2016 - 17:14
It is quite paradoxical, the cubbon park station is likely to be submerged someday because of excess water and people living on Sarjapura road will have to be evacuated because of lack of water.
Flawed plannning!
amithpallavoor - 5 August, 2016 - 11:57
However, I must say Mysore is also trying its best to emulate Bangalore.
No planning or emphasis on public transport. I hear idiotic statements like" it is just a ten minute drive to my office from home, Buses are not convenient in Mysore. Rain water harvesting yaarige beku Cauvery ide."
The area behind Vidyaranpura garbage centre is a dump yard. High rise buildings are dime by the dozen near Karanji kere.
The author needs to visit Chamundi hills and see the amount of garbage that is left there by tourists/pilgrims/ Mysoreans.
The Mysore Grahakara Parishad is trying its best to block things like Mandakalli airport, which shall fuel decentralized economic growth in Karnataka. Mysore needs to be preserved as a heritage city but a vibrant tourism based economy is necessary to sustain yourself. How do you expect people to visit your city if you don't have basic airport and rail facilities?
The line doubling and electrification shows no signs of completion.
Why was not a BRTS planned on the new ring road in Mysore? When will GOK ever learn?
Let us try not to live in the past and reminisce about how beautiful life was when Dharmabudhi kere existed. Let us try to make things in the present better.
Please take up issues pertinent to Mysore and we will do our best to save Bangalore.
Better initiate action (if any remaining) to save Bengaluru
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 11 July, 2016 - 02:15
Time for some hardcore action.
Bengaluru and Mysuru are our family home towns though HalE Mysooru Samsthana is our ancestral home town since Mummadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar's in 1800 AD. Though I lived in Bengaluru and witnessed its deterioration for 40 years (due to employment purpose and was a 2nd line member of BATF and convener of Rajajinagar Agenda Task Force-RATF headed by its then MLA Narendra Babu), I finally got sick of Bengaluru and shifted to my ancestral home in 2005 (after retirement in 2003).
Mysoreans (not only MGP that is haunted with a Closed User Group syndrome) have successfully thwarted many fanciful issues pushed forward by lobbies through selfish politicians (here today and gone tomorrow but people have to live on). Examples:
- Ropeway to Chamundi Temple on the Hill - stopped
- 123 decades old trees saved from felling on Lalitha Mahal boulevard - road widening
- Ill planned Nanjangud-Mysuru industrial belt plan is being revised
- 202 trees saved on MG Road - road widening
- As member of social networking group - Lets do it Mysuru - I am joining every week to clean the precincts of Chamundi Hill for cleaning waste strewn by irresponsible tourists.
- Save Chamundi Hill Campaign - from disfiguring in the name of developing Mall, Multi-storeyed parking and 162 shops near Nandi pit stop has been put on hold.
I feel Bengaluru can be resurrected provided, a temporary holiday of one year is initiated to ban registration of all types of vehicles, ban construction activities in CBD area and also proliferation of private layouts in revenue lands around Bengaluru, increase property tax every year by 20 per cent (amend the acts) and such other regulatory mechanisms.
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath
amithpallavoor - 9 November, 2016 - 15:17
Future scary for Bangalore. I think Whitefield, Ecity, ORR will be the first areas to be evacuated.
I am appalled at the attitude of people living in these areas. They are only worried about movement of cars and not getting Cauvery water. A look at the comments and posts on Whitefield Rising confirm this. We can then convert these areas into a greenbelt once they are evacuated.
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