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‪#‎SaveWhitefield‬

Dear Bengaluru Industry Captains, Greetings,

Going down the memory lane in May 2008, when the news of the new BIAL airport opening and shutting down of HAL had surfaced, there was lot of Hulla-Gulla made. Highlight of that noise was that all of you (Bengaluru based IT-BT Industry Captains) had come out in full force and protested the closure of HAL airport.http://www.business-standard.com/…/biz-honchos-bat-for-hal-…

Best Regards,

K B Syed

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Way Bangalore Traffic, Garbage, Water, Iligal Land,  Safe Pedestrain crossing, Corruption in BBMP, Power supply issues are becoming fire fighting,  why CEO of Corporates are not rasining their concern on behalf of their Employees.

Chaltha Hai attitude in Corporate circle is catching fast in Bangalore.

Chaltha Hai METRO in 2025  should  be slogan for Bangalore

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Source - bangalore.citizenmatters.in

"...The protest will be held in five locations in and around Whitefield—Marathahalli bridge, Graphite India junction, Forum Value Mall, ITPL and KTPO. Five locations have been chosen so that people need not have to travel extra mile to reach the protest venue, says Zibi Jamal, one of the protest organisers. 

How can people participate? The organisers have come up with ways to participate in the protest, for the elderly, children and others who are not able to reach the protest locations. They are:

1. Click a picture in front of their apartment with the #SaveWhitefield placard
2. Requesting maids, drivers, cabbies, shopkeepers to join in
3. Placing the #SaveWhitefield A4 Poster in the cars at the rear windshield, inspiring others to do so
4. Following the organisers on Twitter and Facebook, and sharing or using the hashtag #SaveWhitefield -.."

Read more at: http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/whitefield-citizens-to-take-to-streets-on-nov-30th?utm_source=copy

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The pent-up frustrations of the Whitefield residents over the unsolved civic woes came to the fore on Monday with thousands of them staging a demonstration at the International Technology Park Limited (ITPL) as part of the #SaveWhitefield protest.

Unlike usual Mondays when they would sit at their desks doing their jobs, the IT crowd poured onto the streets, starting from 10 am, demanding that the government look into the various civic and traffic issues troubling the residents of Whitefield and other areas of East Bengaluru.

People from various walks of life, schoolchildren, working professionals, residents and the elderly took part in the protest leaving behind their daily chores.

Dressed in black, the protesters gathered at seven assembly points of Marathahalli, Forum, Hoodi, Nellurahalli, KTPO and Graphite before heading to the rendezvous - ITPL - in front of Park Square Mall.

The pathetic condition of the roads, the absence of pedestrian facilities, traffic violations and pollution were among the issues they wanted the government to address immediately.

They have not just listed their demands but also set deadlines for the authorities to fix them. The list includes: levelling and asphalting of 30 roads in the area by March 1; fixing footpaths and barricading them by January 1; and deployment of traffic cops three times their present number by January 1.

R K Misra, a Whitefield resident, who is also the technical advisor to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and the Bangalore Development Authority, told Deccan Herald that they would wait till December 31 and if no visible changes took place in the locality, then they would intensify their protest.

“We will not pay the property tax from January next year in case the government does not act. We will also storm the Global Investors’ Meet scheduled to be held in the City in February 2016 and stage a protest there,” he added. Misra said though Rs 600 crore had been sanctioned by the government for the development of Whitefield this year, none of the works had commenced.

Utkarsh Singh, founder and managing director, Hyphen Strategic Design, said all companies in and around Whitefield put together suffered losses running into crores of rupees each year due to traffic-related issues.

“Nearly eight lakh vehicles pass through the area on any given day. We want the roads and footpaths to be maintained well. We also want the garbage cleared daily,” said Singh who initiated the #SaveWhitefield movement.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/514950/whitefield-turns-protest-zone.html

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Had their vote failed them? Has the tax they paid over the decades only gone down the drain? Are they left in the lurch with the government turning a blind eye to their problems? Such were the questions protesters of #SaveWhitefield asked the government by displaying placards.

Clad in black, they marched in groups from seven locations to assemble at a common point. Led by an anchor and sub-anchor, each of these groups formed a human chain all the way to the ITPL road around 12 pm. ‘Do not shout.

The government, BBMP is sleeping' (sic), ‘Please show me the road to my school’, ‘My tax and vote has failed’. Placards carried by the protesters with such slogans caught the attention of commuters and motorists passing by.

In an already crippled Whitefield area, there was slow-moving traffic with the protesters gathering in large numbers.

While some protesters took buses to reach ITPL from the assembly points, a few walked all the way and others cycled. The protest did not surprise many commuters. While most of the employees chose to take to the streets, for a few others, Monday morning was like any other. For traffic cops, it was a hard day managing the crowd.

Head constable K Sathyanarayana, Whitefield traffic police, said the crowd swelled the most at ITPL after 11.30 pm. He added that as many as 30 police personnel, including traffic cops from the Whitefield traffic police station, were deployed at the spot to manage the protesters and handle the traffic movement.

Among the protesters were residents of the area, those who worked in the IT hub and also a group of concerned parents whose children studied at one of the schools in that locality.

In what she termed a terrible experience, Chetali, who resides near the Ryan School, said that on November 16, when the City saw incessant rainfall, it took her child five hours to reach home from school. She added that several schools in the area had also changed their timings to make it convenient for children to reach schools.

Pravir Bagrodia, spokesperson, Whitefield Rising, said the government had to put pedestrian safety on the priority list.

“There are no streetlights after the Marathahalli Bridge. We need more skywalks at the main junctions such as near Hope Farm Junction, Graphite, Hoodi and Kundanahalli Gate,” he said, adding that there were no zebra crossings either at any of the major junctions.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/514952/do-not-shout-bbmp-sleeping.html

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