The Times of India  10.08.2010

This corporator does the vanishing trick

 Bangalore: Hosakerehalli as the name suggests is a tankbed, but is where the area's garbage is dumped. Shockingly, not just the residents, the BBMP itself dumps the area's garbage in this tankbed.

"Since we stay close to this tankbed which has a storm water drain flowing near it, even the garbage collectors have stopped coming here to collect the garbage. They ask us for money to collect it from our homes and throw it the same drain," says Sujatha A, a resident of Dattatreya layout.

"Our efforts to reach the corporator have been futile. He is least bothered about our problems. The lake has become a garbage dumpyard and with dirty stinking water flowing next to it," says Yougene Bastian, president, Hrishikesh Vidya Peetha.

Corporator Narayana has not conducted a single meeting with the residents ever since he won the BBMP elections, say residents.

"It is one week now since the door-to-door garbage collection van has come to our layout," says Hombe Gowda, a resident of Chowdappa layout.

Areas like Dwarakanagar have no drainage. So, whenever there is a downpour, rainwater gushes into houses.
For those living in the vicinity of Hosakerehalli Kerekodi, life has become hell with the stinking stormwater drain flowing on the main road.

Another major problem are footpaths. Says Mudligiri Gowda, a resident ofThimmaraya Gowda layout, tiles on the footpath were laid recently but some have already come off. "One side of the road has a well-maintained footpath that was laid four months ago. The one laid on the other side recently reflects BBMP's shoddy work. Mud is used to re-fix these loose tiles. It is unsafe for pedestrians. We have never seen the corporator."