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Thursday, April 22, 2004
Several new parks for the city
The city's municipal body, Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, under its Janodyanavana scheme, has developed and renovated more than 100 public parks and gardens in the last year in a belated attempt to justify Bangalore's tag of Garden City. While the move is certainly welcome, the flip side of the story is that several of the newer parks are little more than showcases of landscaping with extensive lawns with mexican grass, concrete jogging tracks, colourful shrubs, pebble and rock gardens and artificial water streams. Where are the saplings and trees? Krishna has also spoken of establishing a Park Authority for the city whose sole responsibility will be overseeing the development and maintenance of the city's major parks and gardens like Lalbagh, Cubbon Park and the forthcoming Freedom Park.
posted by The Bangalorean @4/22/2004 11:23:00 AM 0 comments
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- What do you call a congenial, captivating, cosmopolitan confluence of software and shopping malls, electronics and environment friendliness, salubrious climate and cleanliness, modern outlook and old worldliness, precision engineering and pubs? You call it India's best city for business. It is also called Bangalore.
Opening lines of Business Today's survey on India's best cities for business, December 1998.
Does Bangalore resemble any of this today?
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- "We neglect our cities at our peril. For, in neglecting them, we neglect the nation."
-John F. Kennedy
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