It is said that there is an acute shortage of manpower with the Horticulture Department. As per the norms, the Horticulture Department of BBMP East should have around 360 employees but it has only 35 employees thus making it tough to look after the saplings planted on the road side and in median in the BBMP East Zone that includes six Assembly constituencies such as Shivajinagar, Shanti Nagar, CV Raman Nagar, Pulikeshi Nagar, Sarvagna Nagar, and KR Puram.
The dread walk
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Nandi Durga Road, residents demand Palike widen the two-metre-wide path
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has taken up a project to develop and improve the footpaths along Nandi Durga Road. The project covering the one-and-a-half-kilometre stretch is estimated to cost Rs 2 crore.
If the width of the footpath along the compound of
Archbishop’s House is any indication, the civic body is interested in spending the tax-payer’s money but does not care about the welfare of pedestrians as they construct footpaths in the City. The BBMP engineer incharge of this footpath claimed that its width is more than a metre and it is pedestrian-friendly but residents disagree.