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MCC plans to axe 200+ trees on Lalitha Mahal Road
Written By indian - 2 June, 2009
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Civil works are mooolah rakers..roads, parks, bus stands,
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 4 June, 2009 - 17:57
Yes, 'what is in it for me'... is the moola mantra of service providers and all those who have adminjistrative and financial sanctioning authority - construction / civil works / splitting the tenders to meet financial rules, codes, cooked up check measurements/ inspections, false certification of completion reports... mandarins of magic world.
- why not think of a vibrant civil society with street committees - it is my money, my street, my city and my country... do we have it in us?
- vasanth mysoremath
Even Mr P Manivannan favours completion of ORR
mcadambi - 4 June, 2009 - 19:53
As per, "The Hindu", Mr P Manivannan has favoured completion of ORR instead of axeing trees on Narasimharaja Boulevard
http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/05/stories/2009060555000300.htm
mcadambi - 4 June, 2009 - 19:55
http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/05/stories/2009060555020300.htm
When: June 8th, 2009 - Monday
What time: 11:00 AM
Where: Arch gate on Lalit Mahal Road
I encourage concerned citizens to turn out in high numbers and oppose this dangerous move. Vasanth and Tanveer - please inform everyone concerned to come in large numbers, especially MGP and ACICM
People power has to play a part!
Email Mysore Grahakara Parishat and ACICM
mcadambi - 2 June, 2009 - 06:29
Hello Sir,
I think you should inform Mysore Grahakara Parishat, Association of Concerned and Informed Citizens of Mysore (ACICM), Star of Mysore and other organisations based out of Mysore.
Remember a simple logic of road widening is like trying to control obesity to switch to larger sized pants.
No matter how much you widen the roads in a city, without controlling private vehicle population, congestion will never be solved.
It is imperative for a city like Mysore to preserve it's heritage, old world charm and focus on public transport.
Read JNNURM FUNDS BEING (mis)/USED for destroying 123 trees?
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 2 June, 2009 - 07:15
Cadambi / Tanveer Sirs,
Please have a look at my post dated 31-5-09 addressed especially to Mysoreans- http://mysore.praja.in/discuss/forums/2009/05/jnnurm-funds-being-misused-to-destroy-123-well-grown-trees-on-lalitha
I am in touch with a few like minded green people (unfortunately, Mysore has splinter groups and not a united vibrant civil society) and hope to stage at least a symbolic protest on the verdant Lalitha Mahal Road (also known as Narasimharaja Boulevard). I am available on 98459 50440. we should have an Appiko movement. Do not be recalcitrant
Question: Can JNNURM funds be used/misused to destroy verdant greenery of a heritage city in the name of widening the road ?
I have also proposed solutions:
- Please do not destroy greenery because MCC itself has declared that 1 km area around Lalitha Mahal is 'restricted zone'. It will create an irrepairable loss to the greenery that has a pride of place in the hearts of nature loving Mysoreans; there will be opposition from all quarters.
(MCC has proposed a public meeting on World Environment Day on 5th June 2009 near the Arch on Lalitha Mahal Road to discuss this very proposal) - /asking for trouble?/)
- Please plan for a tunnel/underground road - double decker - between Race Course junction and the Arch on Lalitha Mahal Road, if necessary, go a little further and branch out.
- plan for strengthened magic boxes as an alternative method - use such facilities where there is scope for saving verdant greenery in Mysore.
- Please do not convert Mysoru into a Hell Hole like Bengaluru - the latest dubious distinction is 'DIRTY CITY".
- Any kind of road widening above ground will result in either cutting down well grown trees or pruning large branches of verdant greenery. Whether authorities have considered alternatives like creating double decker road by going underground to save the environment and destruction of 123 trees is not clear. Irrepairable damage to the environment and destruction of natural carbon sink facility should not be resorted to at the drop of a hat or just because a proposal has been put up by some bright soul. The present volume of traffic does not warrant such a destructive holocast to be imposed on nature.
- When World is concerned about carbon sinks, destruction of grown up trees will be the worst act of cruelty to the delicate ecology and environment of the earth.
- Please remember: One grown up tree gives oxygen to a grown up man for 134 years. GO UNDERGROUND - CREATE DOUBLE DECKER ROAD to branch out at either ends. Technology exists for bettering the life of mankind and not for destroying the very nature he is living.
- If MCC is trying to create it for the welfare of the people, destruction of 123 trees cannot be considered as a welfare measure by any stretch of imagination and please do not go back on your commitment for safeguarding nature around Lalitha Mahal. People will not excuse.
- This act of MCC appears to be worse than the USA proposed NUCLEAR 123 agreement.
- MCC has shown a high concern for maintaining the fair name of this heritage and green city of Mysore in all its earlier endeavors and has been spending so much of money for improving the greenery and it will not augur well for such a responsible body to bring up such proposals in public domain because it will unnecessarily create a disturbance in the mindset of sedate Mysoreans and also the fair name of MCC will get smudged.
- Vasanthkumar Mysoremath
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