They’re taking a dig at us
ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: Feb 5, 2021, 06:00 IST
Highlights
After spending Rs 13.50 crore/km and promising B’luru that TenderSURE roads will never be dug up, Palike is scooping out Residency Road for a skywalk
The BBMP’s Traffic Engineering Cell has approved the skywalk, which is one of the 84 skywalks recommended by the traffic police
Just when you thought roads developed under
TenderSURE would be spared from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s digging, there’s news that the footpath on Residency Road, near the gate of Bishop Cotton’s Girls’ School, will be dug up to make a
Residents protest against plan to convert part of Turahalli forest into a tree park
Bengaluru:
Over 250 people including activists and residents have been protesting against the Karnataka government s move to develop Turahalli minor forest into a tree park. Bulldozers have started rolling into the area on Kanakpura Road on the outskirts of Bengaluru. The protest is being led by Changemakers of Kanakpura Road and Clean Up Turahalli .
In December 2020, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa unveiled the Bengaluru Mission 2022 under which the municipal agency BBMP s administrator Gaurav Gupta said the mini forests in Turahalli, Kadugodi, JP Nagar and Mathikere would be developed and popularised. This had alarmed residents and environment activists.
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A Victory Cast in Stone Mysore Victory Stone
Government is on the backfoot with determined farmers, especially from the northern states, protesting peacefully against the Farm Laws. They are joined by farmers and workers countrywide. Whatever the official obfuscations, this is a People’s agitation/ protest against laws which they well understand will do them harm.
In present times, barring ritual voting in elections, the will of We the People rarely receives recognition. A people s victory is rarer still when central and state governments impose laws and projects according to a pattern of development that is being questioned.
Therefore, victories of We the People need to be recalled, so that those who struggle to assert their rights may be encouraged to soldier on. Although its scale and width does not compare with the on-going farmers’ agitations, it is good to recall a People’s victory won by peaceful means, commemorated on July 24, 2010, with a “Vijayagallu” (Victo