Pre monsoon rains..... & our lake !!

We couldn't have rejoiced more ... Halagevaderahalli lake showing signs of coming alive with the 36mm rains Bengaluru had yesterday night !!

RRNagar planning…. Some thoughts :)

Who is responsible for the developmental planning  of the locality so as to cater to sustainable living ?? The balance seems to have gone askew in a very short period of  our so called developing layout.

The overall development of  the locality can be attributed to the  equal balance maintained by natural  resource development Vs human-need-based  development.

With the number of  Apartment /commercial complexes,  schools, temples , individual residences  springing up uncontrolled, where do we stand in balancing them with  natural resources like Trees, Water bodies & the much needed lung spaces?  If the balance is not  being maintained on the structural development side … how are we coping in keeping up with sanitation, water supply, waste management, public amenities ???? They are eventually bound to go haywire. And we have been quite successful in creating that chaos already.

We are visualizing RRNagar as a prospective model locality but we are also busy coming up with BDA/private apartments in huge numbers, huge hospitals with hundreds of  bed-holding capacity.  Do we have the infrastructure to take these into our fold?

We have ample water/money guzzling, manicured parks for a nice morning/evening walk but are we blind to the fact that our children  don’t have access to open areas to play freely??

Not everybody can keep shelling out huge amounts for a sport  conducted by the private space holders. 

Can the town planning, BBMP, local leaders  take the local residents & experts into confidence and come up with a restrictive but healthy, environmentally  sustainable locality??

The plans are big & huge in numbers but they need to be implemented effectively to bear fruits. Some simple change in thought & ways of doing them helps…..

Rain Water Harvesting in the parks was a great initiative. We can go a step further to build underground tanks, say 1 lakh litre holding capacity (as suggested by Mr. ShivaKumar, IISc),  to store the harvested rain water & can be used in the gardens in turn or maybe a fire truck in case of emergency. Like he says, “the 75% of water on earth cannot change but we can change our ways of handling it !! “

RWH has to be made compulsory in all homes irrespective of the size.

Waste segregation at source  to be taken up on war footing. We seem to be a frustrated lot just because some of the residents don’t comply & it ends up as stray garbage all over the place. Lets plan for propagating rain lilies in empty spaces instead of paper/plastic !!!

Tree saplings to be planted in front of every house..atleast one.

Commercial complexes seem to be taking everybody for a ride but cutting off well-grown trees little by little & finally raze them to the ground. Who is penalizing them? Can the KFD permit tree-cutting for such a trivial reason as “ Elevation” & looks.

Obesity  in Kids is obvious… all they need is a playground nearby !!! Fees shelled out on sports complexes can become a burden on the parents sometimes.

Concrete Walkpaths in the parks…. They seem to be doing more harm than good for the health conscious/needy. A soft mud /gravel path doesn’t impact the joints so much. So, how are we taking care of the elders’ concerns here??

Signing of with hope for some positive thought/attitude changes !!!