Residents and government agencies together are teaming up to implement HSR Layout’s cycling project for children, office goers and everybody – how can you help?-By Saju Joseph

What if our children could cycle safely around the neighborhood going to schools, classes and doing errands freely?

Residents of Purva Fairmont Apartments in HSR layout celebrated the Children’s Day in a very special way. The Purva Fairmont Residents Association organized the Purva Amplithon for kids on 13 November 2011, a running event with race distances of 1km, 4km and 8km. Nearly 100 children enthusiastically participated in the event.  There [...]]]>

Purva Amplithon Winners

Residents of Purva Fairmont Apartments in HSR layout celebrated the Children’s Day in a very special way. The Purva Fairmont Residents Association organized the Purva Amplithon for kids on 13 November 2011, a running event with race distances of 1km, 4km and 8km. Nearly 100 children enthusiastically participated in the event.  There was also a 1km fun run for the parents. The event turned out to be huge hit with the kids!

Finisher medals and prizes were awarded at a grand ceremony the same evening. The evening also had a host of cultural activities from children and they charmed the audiences with their performances.

8km winners

Boys:
1)Akarsh, 2)  Daniel, 3)Vishruth
Girls:
1)Vidita Patel

4 km winners

Boys:
1)Shreyas, 2)Pratik, 3)Rathin
Girls:
1)Srinidhi, 2)Roshni, 3)Wamika.

1km winners

Boys:
1)Mitansh, 2)Agustya, 3)Ninaad
Girls:
1)Saloni, 2)Meghana, 3)Shreya

The City has considerable number of solar power users and hence the Bescom has chosen Bangalore to implement the novel plan on a pilot basis.

The trigger for the idea came in the form of an application by Ravishankar, a resident of HSR Layout, seeking grid connectivity for his rooftop solar power [...]]]>

Solar Farm on the Roof

The City has considerable number of solar power users and hence the Bescom has chosen Bangalore to implement the novel plan on a pilot basis.

The trigger for the idea came in the form of an application by Ravishankar, a resident of HSR Layout, seeking grid connectivity for his rooftop solar power plant. He had sought permission to sell power generated by his 1.8-KW solar plant.

The Bescom, in turn, wrote to Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) on October 28 seeking permission to provide single phase LT grid connectivity to rooftop small solar plants. The Company is now awaiting reply.

P Manivannan, Bescom Managing Director, said solar power costs Rs 10 per unit and the Company proposes to make it more competitive. “Once the KERC grants permission, we will invite tenders. We will procure power from the lowest bidder,” he said.

The Bescom, in its letter to KERC, has stated that neither the Ministry for Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy nor the State government has formulated any clear-cut policy for the LT grid interactive solar photovoltaic projects below 5 kWp (kilowatt-peak units). The letter says that the proposal of Ravishankar was considered in order to encourage solar photovoltaic projects.

According to the letter, the grid connecting equipment installed by the applicant shall be got tested in Central Government testing laboratories. The tariff for the power from the solar plant will be Rs six a unit subject to approval by the KERC. Bes­com has also written a letter to Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited seeking approval for the project.
Source: Deccan Herald

The vacant shops in a commercial complex,  constructed by Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), at HSR Layout can be considered as an example of how government funds go waste if there is no proper planning or vision.

Traffic flow will be affected at the junction of 14th Main, HSR Layout, as Bangalore Development Authority has started flyover construction here. City traffic police have suggested an alternative route to avoid traffic woes, starting Saturday.

Since the construction of the flyover is expected to take three-fourths of the road at the [...]]]>

14th Main Flyover-HSR Layout

Traffic flow will be affected at the junction of 14th Main, HSR Layout, as Bangalore Development Authority has started flyover construction here. City traffic police have suggested an alternative route to avoid traffic woes, starting Saturday.

Since the construction of the flyover is expected to take three-fourths of the road at the junction, and work will continue for at least four months, vehicles plying from Marathahalli and Sarjapur on Outer Ring Road (ORR), towards Hosur Road, Central Silk Board and BTM Ring Road, will take the following route: Heavy vehicles are prohibited on HSR Ring Road 19th Main, towards BMTC depot (near Nanda Hotel).

Buses and trucks should take a left turn at 19th Main junction and move towards Cambridge 17th Cross to take a right turn to reach BDA junction to reach HSR 5th Main junction and then proceed towards their destination.

Cars and other light motor vehicles will have to reach the 17th Cross with 9th Main, from where they will have to take a left turn to reach HSR Ring Road.

The road between 9th Main of HSR Ring Road and till its junction with 19th Main (Nanda Hotel junction) will be made one-way. This would facilitate the movement of vehicles from Central Silk Board junction towards Agara.

Vehicles can take both left and right turn from 14th Main of HSR Ring Road to go towards Koramangala and various sectors of HSR Layout.
Source: DNA

Long Back we had reported about Rocks being dumped in the site meant for Park, it’s been 2 years , though the rocks has been cleared Residents of HSR Layout 3rd Sector are eagerly and painstakingly waiting for work on the neighborhood park of 17th ‘A’ Main, 23rd ‘A’ [...]]]>

HSR Layout 3rd Sector Park Site

Long Back we had reported about Rocks being dumped in the site meant for Park, it’s been 2 years , though the rocks has been cleared Residents of HSR Layout 3rd Sector are eagerly and painstakingly waiting for work on the neighborhood park of 17th ‘A’ Main, 23rd ‘A’ Cross to start.
After many hurdles, somehow the boulders that were dumped there have been cleared. Residents are using this four-acre park but a lot need to be done before they can use it freely. But the BDA’s Town Planning Commission has not yet taken a final decision about this park.
Dharmendhar, one of the residents of 23rd Main said, “This area is slowly becoming an urban slum, unless the authorities look into the real problem nothing can happen. We are waiting for a good park in our area, but it’s getting delayed for one or the other reason. Hoping the authorities consider this area and come to a good conclusion.”Speaking to Cityplus, 3rd sector Residents’ Welfare Association secretary H M Javali said, “We wrote a letter to the BDA Commissioner on January 28, explaining him the issue. But so far we have not received any response. We just need a good park according to the plan.”
Then there is another problem for the residents. The 23rd ‘A’ Cross leads to the park and stops at the fencing of the west side of the park. There is a move to extend the park road to reach 18th Main easily, but then it would lead to a reduction of 20 per cent area of the park.

A resident, Sunitha Mohan, said, “If the park road is extended, then the HSR Club members will park their vehicles here, which will create a lot of nuisance. And it does not make sense to extend the road at all. It hardly takes five minutes to reach 18th Main from 23rd Main.”While speaking to Cityplus, a BDA source said, “Earlier this CA site was given to the Department of Youth Services and Sports of Karnataka to come up with an indoor stadium in HSR Layout, 3rd Sector. From many years this plan was on hold. Now residents wish to have a park here. The final decision is only left to BDA Commissioner and Town Planning Committee.”
Source: Jagran CityPlus

Taking off on a holiday with your family could put your house at risk. With several people leaving behind independent houses and apartments locked for more than a week during summer vacations, burglars fancy their chances. Inspector L Y Rajesh of HSR Layout police station says, “With [...]]]>

Safety First Vocation Next

Taking off on a holiday with your family could put your house at risk. With several people leaving behind independent houses and apartments locked for more than a week during summer vacations, burglars fancy their chances. Inspector L Y Rajesh of HSR Layout police station says, “With no activity in and around the house for up to a week, it becomes an easy target for burglars as they do not expect to face any obstacle to their activities.”

Police are asking citizens to cooperate with them in preventing burglaries. Among other things, they have been requesting citizens to inform the nearest police station about their travel plans and other necessary details.

“It helps to have details about your milkman, newspaper vendor, your house etc. It helps us keep a vigil on houses whose inmates are out on a vacation. Newspapers and milk packets lying unattended at the doorstep attract the attention of burglars,” explains Rajesh.TIPS TO SECURE YOUR HOUSE
» Do not keep valuables and ornaments at home. Instead, keep them in bank lockers.
» Switch off lighting equipment, as they would attract unnecessary attention.
» Keep the police informed about your travel plans.
» Inform the newspaper vendor and milkman too and leave their details with the police.
» Do not keep laptops, handycams and other costly gadgets.
» Do not park cars and vehicles on the road or pavement.
» Do not keep weapons and ammunition at home.
» Apartment dwellers must inform their association.
Read Complete Article at Bangalore Mirror

Summer is when slithering creatures crawl out of their dwelling and haunt air-conditioned houses and offices. Several incidents have been reported where strange reptiles have found their way into domestic households, scaring the residents out of their wits.

The wildlife cell of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) [...]]]>

Snakes are out in Bangalore

Summer is when slithering creatures crawl out of their dwelling and haunt air-conditioned houses and offices. Several incidents have been reported where strange reptiles have found their way into domestic households, scaring the residents out of their wits.

The wildlife cell of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) receives at least 25 calls everyday, seeking help or complaining about a reptile’s entry into a residence.

On Saturday, the wildlife cell received a call from the residence of an IAS officer at HSR Layout. A cobra had entered officer Agawane’s house. The wildlife team got there on time to rescue it.

There are 33 BBMP wildlife volunteers who help residents capture reptiles entering their homes. During summer, snakes crawl out of their nests and come in search of cool places, said head of wildlife cell, R Sharath Babu.

People in HSR Layout can call BBMP Control Room : 080-22100031 / 26724036

In Bangalore, three species of snakes are predominant: Rat snake that is non-venomous and the venomous cobra and Russell’s viper.

A volunteer from the BBMP wildlife cell pointed out that, in summer, the snakes go in search of cool places because of the rise in temperature. They enter a garage, a house or any place they find shade.

The volunteer also advised the public not to light fire to vacant sites during summer.

“Already, the temperature is high and when people light fire to vacant sites, the heat forces reptiles to come out of their nests. This is when they enter domestic households,” he said.

The identification card provided by the BBMP should be checked before people permit men to catch animals, because unauthorised people hurt the creatures while rescuing it, the volunteer said.
Source: DNA

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Sewage water has flooded the basements of Ambalipura Residency, SJR Redwoods and Park Vista in the locality, leaving the residents to combat a host of diseases.

Other than Ambalipura Residency, the apartment complexes of SJR Redwoods and Park Vista, which together houses over a thousand families, are bearing the [...]]]>

SJR Redwoods-Haralur Road

Sewage water has flooded the basements of Ambalipura Residency, SJR Redwoods and Park Vista in the locality, leaving the residents to combat a host of diseases.

Other than Ambalipura Residency, the apartment complexes of SJR Redwoods and Park Vista, which together houses over a thousand families, are bearing the brunt of blocked drainages, resulting in sewage water flooding the basements, parking lots and every other low-lying area in the locality.

While the stink is unbearable, residents have contracted a variety of diseases, including upset stomach, cold, coughs and high fever, over the last few months.

Rajalakshmi, a homemaker residing in Ambalipura Residency, said,”Everyone in my family of four, including my two children, have fallen sick. Dirty water is everywhere and there is no way we can avoid diseases in this environment.”Fever, stomach upsets and coughs have become common in her family. “The stagnant sewage water could be contaminating the underground water. Since we use borewell water, we are easy prey to diseases,” Rajalakshmi said.

The blockage in the sewerage line on land owned by a private company has been blamed by the residents for their predicament. While they have complained to the BBMP, no help has been forthcoming.

“The drain water is coming into the car parking area of our basement. We have repeatedly complained to the BBMP in this regard, but nothing has been done yet,” said Manjula, another resident.

The residents allege that the pipeline that has been blocked belongs to Bulchee, a leather manufacturing company.

Read Full Story at Bangalore Mirror

Iblur Lake-Photo Courtesy-The Hindu

Fishermen of Iblur Lake faced a loss of Rs.1.8 lakh from a total income due to the death of fish caused by the inflow of sewage into the lake water.

Residents feel the wide roads have changed the equation of HSR  Layout for its betterment. Besides, it has a number of well-maintained parks. But the biggest advantage of this 1500-acre locality is the beautiful Agara Lake.

K Latha [...]]]> Recently HSR Layout came 16th in the DNA-AZ research on the most liveable areas in Bangalore.

Residents feel the wide roads have changed the equation of HSR  Layout for its betterment. Besides, it has a number of well-maintained parks. But the biggest advantage of this 1500-acre locality is the beautiful Agara Lake.

K Latha Narasimha Murthy, civic leader of HSR Layout, is foxed why the locality got the backbench status while everything is going well.

“Being among the top 20 residential areas is nice, but we are striving to be a model to other localities by coming up with various new ways of approaching the residents for better transparency,” says a beaming Latha.

“With a huge population of over 1 lakh voters, only 48,000 voters turned up to vote this time,” says she.

The locality is doing well in terms of civic amenities. “Dust bins have been distributed to all the houses. An auto collects the garbage. This method has been in practice from a long time and it helps in maintaining cleanliness around us,” says she.

Latha is, however, piqued that the BBMP does not call tenders in this area for the maintenance of street lights since April 1 2010. On an average, 7 out of 10 complaints from residents are on faulty street lights. Hence, the streets become a risky zone after dusk for elders and women.

The bars along the roads retail liquor that result in drunken rowdyism, complain many residents. The locality has just one playground and it is too inadequate to serve the residents’ needs.
In an area populated by a lakh, there should be at least one medical store which functions 24 hours, says Dillip Kumar, a resident.

The traffic problems in and around HSR Layout and Agara have been taken care of by building a flyover and widening the roads. Road chaos is a rare thing even during peak hours, say commuters. But the ring road still remains a bottleneck, says N Nathan, a resident.

In a locality where civic problems are taken care of without any hassle by residents, there is a growing need for public toilets near parks, temples and other public utility places. Crime rates are within the limit and residents thank the local police for this.
Source: DNA

The state government has incurred the wrath of the Karnataka High Court over its ‘apathy’ in providing housing facility for judges.

“We need not beg for it. Crores of rupees are spent by the government on rents but housing facilities have not been provided for judges,” a Division Bench [...]]]>

The Disputed Land

The state government has incurred the wrath of the Karnataka High Court over its ‘apathy’ in providing housing facility for judges.

“We need not beg for it. Crores of rupees are spent by the government on rents but housing facilities have not been provided for judges,” a Division Bench remarked while hearing a petition on Tuesday.

The Court on September 14 had constituted a committee comprising Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary Housing and Urban Development, Bangalore Development Authority Commissioner and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner to look into alternative and for the judges’ colony and directed the committee to submit a report by October 18. The Bench was unhappy with the Committee as there was no report submitted.

Amarnathan, a city-based advocate had filed the PIL challenging allotment of 8.5 acres of playground in HSR Layout for judges’ colony. The High Court had stayed the grant in 2008.

Award stayed

The HC has stayed an award passed by the BDA after 24 years from the date of final notification to acquire land for formation of the HSR Layout.

N Madeswara had moved the Court challenging the order to acquire his land for Rs 52,000 per acre. The property situated on the National Highway measures about 9,000 sqft and BDA itself had sanctioned plan in the year 1964 for construction of industrial shed or a godown. The counsel for the petitioner, G R Mohan, said that a notification to acquire the land in 1986 was dropped after a joint inspection by BDA Deputy Commissioner. Following an award dated May 12, 2005, the petitioner moved the HC. Justice Abdul Nazir stayed the dispossession until further orders.

Source: Deccan Herald

The scene of stray pigs grazing on the garbage opposite to a big bungalow, heaps of earth piled up and huge tunnel-like pipes on either side of the roads in a peaceful residential area like HSR Layout was not what any resident, who saw the layout being brought up in [...]]]>

Meenakshi Classic-27th Main Road, HSR

The scene of stray pigs grazing on the garbage opposite to a big bungalow, heaps of earth piled up and huge tunnel-like pipes on either side of the roads in a peaceful residential area like HSR Layout was not what any resident, who saw the layout being brought up in 1980s, would wish to see.

A number of multi-storey buildings on the other side of Sector 2 have been completely cut off. The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has dug up both sides of this long road and laid the steel pipes to be fitted underground for replacing the old concrete pipes, which had developed leakages.

Workers at the site, who were pumping out water from the old pipes, told DNA that they began the work only a few days ago and have no idea when it would be completed.

The water board has also dumped the steel pipes in many other places of HSR Layout, probably to let residents know that such a work would be undertaken by them soon.“The BBMP claims it has no funds to finish a work that has been undertaken. Why do they collect taxes then? Various civic authorities seem to be at war with each other. When one finishes a work, the other starts functioning,” said RS Hiremath, president of HSR Layout Sector 2 Resident Welfare Association.

As if this is not enough, the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) had dug up the roads on 24th and 17th Main Roads of HSR Layout to lay new underground 66kv lines, six months before the water board started digging.

“They have completed the work, but they have not re-laid the dug up road. Vehicles are parked on this stretch as if this was a kind of borderline for the parking zone. A 60 feet road has shrunk into a 30 feet road that too for two-way traffic,” rued retired Brig RS Murthy who lives in HSR Layout, Sector 2.

The indiscriminate garbage dumping and disappearance of footpaths at several places add to the woes of HSR residents. It was also found out that waste segregation was happening only at the dumping ground, and put into the compactor and sent to Indirapura landfill. Even as the stench fills the air, the contractor pleaded helplessness as the residents do not segregate the waste and dispose it.

Flyover woes
On the Outer Ring Road, flyovers are being constructed between Sarjapura to Silk Board junction to ease traffic pressure. However, the work is undertaken in such a way that it creates more traffic chaos. While one part of the flyover has been started and smaller vehicles are using it, BMTC buses are still running on the service lane as there is a non-designated bus stop below the flyover.

“We have brought this matter to the attention of the concerned authorities, but something seems to work with all of them. BDA, BMTC and others agencies do not seem to take suggestions of the public, who bear the brunt of such a lackadaisical approach towards things,” said Balagopal, a resident.

As a result of this, traffic on Ring Road, which has grown 50 times over five years, has to slip through a chicken-neck point below the flyover which is all set, but yet to start functioning. The only other solution these heavy vehicles come up with is to take the inner roads which go into the calm and serene HSR Layout.

“Only a year back, they re-laid the inner roads of our layout. And now they have started construction on all sides. BWSSB started replacing old pipes with new ones only after the roads were done and KPTCL dug some roads to lay the lines. But why could all these three departments not co-ordinate with each other and do these works at the same time, so that movement of people is not hindered,” said Brig Murthy.

Now, the whole of the 27th main, which also serves as a ring road within the layout and is the only connecting point to a number of multi-storey buildings on the other side of Sector 2, has been completely cut-off.

Source: DNA