Whatzz up (with) Bangalooore??--an ode. Review on Bangalore Development Authority

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One decent look at this part of the planet and any visitor from outer space would say, ''I want to see the manager.'' Nope! I am not exaggerating. I firmly believe that 'to know a person,we need to look at his shoes'.

Looked at the 'shoes' of this 'silicon city' I have and am shocked at my own findings(as will be evident from the number of quotation marks I am gonna use in my review). This was not what I was told about this great place by my fr'ens This city is supposed to be the madeleine on India and even it is like this!

I do not know where and how to broach this polemic. The trouble with facts is that there are too many of them.

I was granted my industrial training in Bangalore by my college. It was then that this odessy started. All my friends congratulated me. They began telling me the wonderful ways in which I could entertain myself at Bangalore. Fatuous I was and started dreaming and looking ahead for these six months.

The first 15 days were too good to believe. I stayed with my friend and his bro-in-law at R.T.Nagar. It was quite(I generally get this spelling wrong.'cutedoggie' was good enough to let me know after reading my lst review.) serene and I had no worries at all. May be 'coz the in-law, being a great chef fed us daily and I certainly did not pay the rent.

Then I fancied myself to be fiercely independent(a folly I always commit), and decided to shift.

Plz read the first comment to know abt this experience.

As I told U already, I look at the shoes to know a person. So, I walked daily from SilkBoard to my place(5 km) after office to study Bangalore and kill my time. I roamed about on foot on saturdays and sundays till evening just to get to know all the places.I also wanted to maintain my hard earned figure (u may read my

review ''lose weight lazying away'' to know ). What do I find??

Drianage lanes covered- to prepare footpaths. A good one. But,the covering wasn't proper.Every 10 steps, u find a loosened tile(U'll fall down if u are not carefull-believe me!) or an empty space to 'look down at the graciously flowing filth'. What happens to pedestrians in nights??Especially on rainy ones?? 'coz the lightning up of Bangalore is pathetic. In the last week or so,

I have come across at least four articles in TOI about people losing their lives on rainy days to open manholes and uncovered foothpaths 'overthe drains'.

One such instance- A child was going home after school with his grandparents.The garndmother fell into an 'open footpath drain' dragging the child with her as she was holding his hand.The grandfather could save the child,but not his wife....

There are plates put up asking us to follow the 'lane discipline' strictly. These lanes are not even lookable on rainy days leave alone walkable. The highways and the busiest roads too are the size of a matchbox!Most footpaths are either the parking places or the garbage dumps.

And to think, there are scores of It companies here- with scores of vehicles for scores of employees!!

No single day do they reach the offices on time-either at Whitefield or on the Hosur road.

Even the areas beside the fly-overs are terrible. Garbage is dumped every where. The municipality guy comes diligently to regularly clear off the trash from our houses. But, where is it dumped?? Everywhere! No burning it off. No

converting it to manure.No using it to extract power.

Big deal for 'Singapore'.

I am not claiming that the other cities are any better.

I am free of all prejudice. I have started hating everyone equally!!

There are no proper consumer laws governing the ’businesses’ here. Even if there are, they are confined only to the files.

Laws here are like sausages.It’s better not to see them being made.

They are like burgers.Do ya remember the first time u had a burger- how u had to be very very careful not to make a fool of urself before everybody else??

Every damn governing body is the same.

I saw the traffic police at Malleshwaram earning more in one day than a month’s pay.

continued in comments section.

There’s the BDA(Bangalore Development Authority), the BMRDA(Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority) and the BMP(Bangalore Mahanagara Palike). But to what avail??? The punch line of BDA is ’’Building Bangalore’’!!!! Do u see anything??? It aims at ’’Development of Bngalore in a planned manner, Quality infrastructure, Catering to the housing needs of the under privileged and Providing sites and services.’’ It seems to me that it aims only at the last point. Only ’coz a lot can be earned thru the auctions of these sites

Some research:

Please do read these TOI newspaper articles if u can find them:

• 12th September,page-2 and bangalore times(u can check these columns out daily).

  
  




• 11 th Sept, Bangalore Times-articles on roads including ones like that of Brigade Road and the ''official'' retort to the question!and page-2(one good news from transport dept too is in this page.)

  
  




• Someday between 18th - 31st Aug, Bangalore Times-article on pathetic state of heritage buildings in Bangalore and the ''Govt's'' reply!

  
  




• 12th September, Deccan Herald-main page.

  
  




• 13th Indian Express, suppliment main page- article abt our mayor's ''phoren mantra'' though in ''problems galore''

  
  

Please do look out for the update tomorrow evening. I'll give u ppl a surprise. And do not go abt imagining things till then!