Bangalore is expanding at an unimaginable pace especially in
the last two to three dacades. Villages and Towns at the outskirts have merged
into the present Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) because of this
development. Nearly, 110 villages and 7(Seven) town municipalities are included
in the present BBMP limits.Agricultural
lands have been converted to residential, commercial, industrial purposes.This
has lead to springing up of monotonous concrete jungles everywhere.
In recent years many private layouts have come up without
wide roads, basic civil amenities, electricity, sewerage lines etc. In these
layouts on the narrow roads, multistoried buildings are coming up creating
traffic jams endangering the lives of the pedestrians. Such developments are
very dangerous since fire tenders cannot reach such narrow places in case of
accidental fires as witnessed in Mumbai and other cities recently. Uncontrolled
and unplanned mushrooming of private layouts has resulted in haphazard growth
of the city. The quality of life of the citizens living these layouts is badly
affected due to lack of basic amenities.
Hundreds of multistoried residential and commercial buildings are coming up on the outskirts, which is fast changing the skyline of
the city. This type of growth has resulted in further problems like inadequate
infrastructure, transportation, water scarcity, sanitary facilities etc. In
recent times Bangalore is evidencing this kind of phenomenon. Land costs have
increased by leaps and bounds which is unaffordable even by the middle class
people let alone lower income group people.
The infrastructure is cracking in almost all the areas.
The Government must come up with a comprehensive plan even
for formation of private layouts – imposing strict norms for providing broader
roads, proper sanitary and sewerage lines, enough lung spaces like provision
for parks etc. Multistoried apartment and commercial buildings should not be
allowed on narrow roads in such layouts. The height of the buildings must be
restricted to only two or three stories only on such narrow roads. This will
arrest the uncontrolled growth of the city, avoiding too much burden on the
infrastructure and transportation facilities.
The Government must act fast and come out with a master plan
for the planned growth of Bangalore City with civic amenities, adequate
infrastructure and a reliable efficient transport system and stop the present
haphazard growth of the city.
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