Bangalore: Not Fastest Growing City But fastest Dying City!

This weekend Three news caught my eyes:

1. A conference held in Bangalore about alarming conditions of Water Resources of the city
2. Salumarada Timmakka in BBC TOP 100 women list
3. Namma Metro is giving Step-Motherly Treatment to Native Kannada Speaking employees

Bangalore aka Bengaluru was once renowned as Garden City, also for some citizens it was Pensioners Paradise, But Today many environmentalists are calling it "Fastest Deteriorating City" from the point of view of under water resources. According to them in Next 10 Years Bangalore will be depleted of Drinking water resources and 50% of population has to be relocated! Also in a city of nearly 1.30 Crores population, 60% of citizens depend upon Bore well (Under water resource) for drinking water and it is expected in 10 years all the Bore wells will dry up. 

Bangalore lake Encroachment process

Drainage Meets Drinking Water

According to V. Balasubramaniam, Retired Additional Secretary to Govt. Of Karnataka, the drinking water available in city is not 100% pure and in many places sewage lines and Cauvery river lines cross each other thus contaminating Cauvery water.

Rain Water Harvesting is a Big-Joke

According to him Rain Water Harvesting project of Bengaluru Nagarapalike B.B.M.P is an utter joke, with only 90,000 Houses having implemented Rain water harvesting correctly, while rest are all eye washing mechanisms.   

Transformation Cycle from Lakes to Multi-Storey Buildings
Initially Lake Bed is depleted by pouring/dumping building debris and allowing sanitary lines to pollute water bodies. Slowly Places of worship come to existence in Lake vicinity, Next Slums and slum dwellers occupy the Lake Bed Next Slum is eliminated and High-Rise Structures a.k.a apartments and Shopping Malls come to existence depicting Growth and Transformation of the city!
You can read more info @ this link: day to day incidences of spoiling lakes

While the experts are speaking about encroachment of lakes and its ill effects, Bangalore Daily News papers are reporting dozens of such encroachment incidences, for more info read following link Dying City Read more..in Kannada

Salumarda Timmaka Top 100 list of BBC
Today, Entire Karnataka knows the name Salumarda Timakka, An old women who planted 8000 saplings in her village streets in 80 years and nourished them to provide Green Cover to city outskirts that is quickly losing out greenery for lust of man for money in form of land.
Timmakka is one out of Five elite members from India to be listed, Timmakka is listed along with Bollywood star Sunny Leone,Young Computer Techie from Maharastra Gowri Chindarkar, C.E.O of Tractors and Farms Equipment Ltd. Mallika Srinivasan and writer Neha Singh from Mumbai.
It is great honour to this old woman from a rural place to be topping the list of 100 influential women released by B.B.C

Saalu Marada Thimakka with Trees she has nourished

read more ...Salumarada Timmakka:In Top 100 Women list of BBC

Namma Metro is Not Ours!
Bengaluru name is in Kannada language, but long back it embraced Cosmopolitan culture, Today Job offers for Kannadigas in Bangalore city is not easy walk. Karnataka Legislature special Assembly session at Belagavi has made noise over ill treatment to Kannada speaking employees in Bengaluru Metro Corporation, which is already in the clutches of non Kannada speaking higher ups.

read more here

Finally crowds in front of Bangalore ATMs and Banks have shorten up with people getting sufficient amount of currency for daily needs...

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