Bengaluru City development plans lost their objectives: AAP

Bengaluru: Karnataka state capital is becoming unconscious and growing uncontrollably without proper plan. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has already forecast that the Garden City will soon become a Dead City. At present, Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) is preparing a Revised Master Plan (RMP) for development for the next fifteen years valid till 2031 but these preparations, guidelines have lost their objectives, said Karnataka Aam Admi Party leaders in a press meet held at Bengaluru press club on Tuesday.

Aam Aadmi Party is monitoring these development plan preparations closely and will expose any shortcoming in the plan to keep the Government under check. It is highly regrettable the though BDA is holding public consultations on this issue, the public do not have any information on these meetings. The public have elected ward wise corporators and assembly wise legislators but BDA has not involved these people’s representatives and thus are cheating the Bengaluru residents.

The corporators should have held consultations at ward level, legislators at assembly level and MPs at their constituency level, to find out what the public want or don’t want and then shared these findings with BDA. Instead these preparatory meetings are being held for selected people at the zone level. In this plan BDA has published the figures of an impractical and exaggerated plan of BWSSB to bring in 20 TMC water, 10 TMC from Linganamakki reservoir and 10 TMC from Yettinahole project, which is an irresponsible statement. BDA should have thought of increased water consumption in the central part of the city and should have tried to decongest the city which is already overcrowded. The Government is claiming to double the city area but AAP wants to know from where is the grants and drinking water coming for this and demands that these too be made public.

AAP wishes to bring to the notice of the Government that Bengaluru has already grown out of control and it needs to be developed to help the aspirations of future generations and the Government also needs to develop other cities, not just Bengaluru. If the communication facility to nearby towns of Tumkur, Ramanagar, Kolar etc., which already have a rail connectivity, is further improved the load of development on Bengaluru will automatically reduce and help the development opportunity of other towns too. Thus the Government should plan about regional development too.

AAP has gathered inputs from people and town planning experts from all over Karnataka, which has reaffirmed the opinion of the people that in Government’s stand only Bengaluru is Karnataka. AAP believes that to save Bengaluru from total collapse and keep it inhabitable, the development opportunities must be shared with nearby towns instead of forcing further development of Bengaluru.