Part of tank bund road in Sarakki set to make way for pipeline

The BBMP will demolish a portion of the tank bund road to spare temples encroaching upon the two waste weirs of Sarakki lake, which is in spate for the past few days.

The Palike will lay a 55-metre-long pipe having a three-foot diameter to connect it with the reinforced cement concrete (RCC) box drain somewhere away from the human settlement.

Half of the pipeline-laying work is over and the rest will be done on Monday and Tuesday night.

A religious complex comprising many temples have come up on the waste weirs of the lake. During the anti-encroachment drive a year ago to rid the Sarakki lake of encroachment, the district authorities razed many residential and commercial buildings but spared the temples, fearing flare-up of religious sentiments.

The leniency shown to the temples finally cost the residents dear when their houses were inundated after torrential rains on Thursday and Friday.

Traffic diversion
A Palike engineer said, “We have asked the traffic police to divert vehicles on Tuesday night on the tank bund road for laying the pipe. Once it is done, the problem will be solved to a great extent.”

Mayor B N Manjunath Reddy visited areas around Sarakki lake on Tuesday and spoke to the affected people. He met the officials working to flush out water from the houses.
DH News Service

BBMP to demolish apartment boundary wall built on road
Residents of Sobha Daffodil Condominium in HSR Layout, southeast Bengaluru, are living in a state of fear these days.

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is set to raze the compound wall built on a part of the 10.06-metre-wide road leading to Haralur Road.

Sources in the BBMP said that some residents had complained to the civic body that the boundary wall encroaches on the road.

Based on the complaint, a survey was conducted and the accusation was found to be true. The BBMP served a notice on the builder, Sobha Developers, as well as the residents, intending to demolish the wall.

The residents moved the High Court seeking quashing of the notice issued by the Joint Commissioner, BBMP, and secured a stay on the demolition. The BBMP moved the court to get the stay vacated, contending that the compound wall was constructed by “illegally” closing the road and it caused inconvenience to the public.

On Tuesday, Justice L Narayanaswamy vacated the stay but directed the BBMP not to demolish the compound wall until Friday.

On July 29, the BBMP’s Bommanahalli zonal engineers had reached the spot with bulldozers, policemen and gangmen to raze the structure, panicking the dwellers of the residential complex spread over 9.6 acres.

They ran out of their homes and stood defiantly before the bulldozers to protect their property.

The officials had retreated but warned the residents that the Palike would eventually raze the wall as it had encroached upon the road.
DH News Service