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Bengaluru East City Corporation, which houses the city’s IT corridor, is not lone the richest of the 5 corporations, but besides the largest successful area. However, it woefully lags successful lung spaces. It has lone 35 parks, compared with an mean of implicit 300 parks successful different corporations. While occupying 23.5% of the city’s civic area, the East Corporation has lone 2.5% of the city’s parks.
This information intelligibly indicates the deeper rot of unplanned and unregulated improvement connected the city’s south-eastern outskirts, since the precocious 1990s, to accommodate the IT corridor and its lodging needs.
In layouts developed by some authorities agencies and backstage players, 15% of the country has to beryllium earmarked for parks and playgrounds, which has led to truthful galore parks successful the halfway metropolis areas. However, improvement successful the IT corridor is dominated by apartments and gated communities, astir of them unplanned. This is cited arsenic 1 of the main reasons for the deficiency of nationalist parks successful the East Corporation.
Erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike had projected to make Cubbon Park and Lalbagh-like lung spaces successful the outer zones, but nary of them took disconnected the ground.
Jagadish Reddy, of Varthur Rising, said that the Mahadevapura assembly constituency had astir 14,000 acres of government-owned onshore arsenic per gross records, which could beryllium developed into parks and playgrounds to connection a prime of beingness to the citizens of these areas. “But determination is neither specified a imaginativeness nor governmental will. Instead, ample chunks of these authorities lands person been encroached upon and developed,” helium said, highlighting the conflict to support the Kadugodi wood and plantation land.
He said wood patches successful the Corporation country person to beryllium developed into histrion parks and decently fenced with entree power mechanisms to forestall garbage dumping. “This volition sphere these wood patches and supply park-like spaces to the citizens,” helium said.
D.S. Ramesh, Commissioner, East Corporation, said presently determination were nary proposals to make caller parks, but the absorption was connected redeveloping the existing parks. “While we person precise fewer parks, owed to a bequest contented with planning, we are blessed with 46 lakes, including the largest lakes of the city, similar Bellanadur Lake and Varthur Lake. We are focusing connected rejuvenating these lakes, truthful that they tin enactment arsenic some nationalist spaces and lung spaces,” helium said.
