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NPS, Oxford & PGs are a nuisance for Sector 4 residents
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he presence of Oxford College and National Public School (NPS) is causing much heartburn among residents of 17th B Main in Sector 4. Adding to their problems is the lackadaisical attitude of school authorities, bus drivers and civic agencies in finding a permanent solution to the problem of rash driving, blaring loud speakers and traffic jams on this thoroughfare. In addition, two residential buildings have turned commercial and host Paying Guest accommodations, two xerox shops and a tailoring unit. The result is that there is queuing up of people, haphazard parking, constant noise and a lot of latenight pickup and drops of men and Continued on page 2
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women staying in PGs. NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL The residents of this road complain that the National Public School in HSR Layout is high-handed about its functioning. Whether it's playing blaring music all day a month before the recent annual day function or the haphazard parking of vehicles by parents in front of people's houses on 17th B Main, or the high-handedness of school bus drivers, the residents have had enough of the school. That it has pupils of IAS officers and politicians makes it get away with many of these issues, claim residents. The problems don't just end there. "The school authorities are arrogant and don't respond to complaints from the residents," says resident activist Kavitha Reddy. "The Sector 4 Residents Welfare Association has written 55 letters to the school regarding the traffic, noise and road congestion issues in the last 4-5 years, but the school chooses to keep mum about them all. We call for a meeting and they don't come." The most recent was the day-long blaring music that went on in the school campus to prepare for a recently-concluded school fest. The issue is that such festivities happen on school grounds on a regular basis. With several senior citizens living on 17th B Main, the noise norms are getting violated and the day-long music is hurting everyone. "The school is like a fort... they don't want to talk to anybody outside," said Kavitha. "Let them issue instructions to the parents not to park in front of people's homes. They can also use
their security personnel to resolve the parking problems. For functions, they can request Freedom School to lend their grounds." There are other noise pollution sources as well. "They keep big generators in front of our houses, and they go on and on," says another resident Panduranga CR. "They stink too. Why can't they place the generators inside? They have a big campus." R E SI DE N T S ' C A R S U N DE R HOUSE ARREST "We can't bring out our cars from houses as the buses are parked on the school side and the parents park in front of our house," says Panduranga. "We cannot handle the parents, only the school management can police them by issuing an instruction that parking on 17th B Main will not be allowed." The residents understand that certain issues need a compromise. But all they are asking for is to be consulted when certain issues cannot be resolved. "They should respect the neighbours," says Kavitha. "That coexistence formula is not there which is what is agitating people as they are doing their own thuggery." Two years ago, the issue with bus drivers reached a flashpoint when a bus driver hit a resident for objecting to haphazard parking of school buses on the public road. "We filed a case against the drivers, and today, the drivers are begging us to withdraw the complaint," said Kavitha. "The school authorities say that they have outsourced the bus service and are therefore not responsible for the bus
driver's actions. Playing 'chamma chamma' and other dance numbers with full-on speakers is not positive energy, it's disgusting! Cops have been called thrice already due to the noise from speakers at NPS School!" THE OXFORD COLLEGE OF SCIENCE The students from Oxford College are another problem. "There is public display of affection by them all along the road," said Kavitha. Another resident Shamanna Reddy echoes her feelings and says, "The school students drive rashly and make too much on 17th B Main where I stay. This road is a nuisance for the last 810 years and no amount of complaints to BBMP to install speed humps has worked. Similarly, the traffic cops are not finding a permanent solution to the rash driving issue here." Resident V Anand Kumar says they have no problems with other schools like Freedom International and Shakuntala Devi as they are not on 17th B Main. "The problem is only with NPS and Oxford college," he says. "The cops are also helpless. I have seen them doing nothing even when four students are on a bike and indulging in PDA. The cops tell us if the parents are not bothered about their kids, why should we?" COMMERCIALISATION A bakery was stopped from coming up on the road, but the two PGs on the road are not hosting a new xerox shop in addition to the existing xerox shop and a tailoring unit. "All these facilities lead to a crowd of students parking their two wheelers haphazardly," says Kumar. "Every other day, I am fighting with the college authorities as I am not able to take out my car. The college security only works when I scream at them. On other days, they go lax again. Because of PGs, women stand out at night, creating further nuisance as guys pick up and drop them. The college authorities organise birthday parties and throw the garbage on the road." We emailed NPS principal Shefali Tyagi to get back to us on the complaints from residents. But she hasn't bothered to reply. This vindicates the allegations by residents that NPS is arrogant and least concerned about their immediate neighbours.
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Teacher's Colony youngster is a finalist in a global automobile contest
Vishall is in the front row and third from right
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ineteeen-year-old KM Vishall Somaiya, a resident of Teacher's Colony, is a mechanical engineering student of New Horizon College of Engineering in Marathahalli. He and his friends from different disciplines like automobile and electrical engineering have built an energy-efficient solar vehicle for an international contest by Shell. They are one among the four participants from Bangalore who are shortlisted for the competition in the second week of December called Shell Eco-Marathon in Chennai. Not only will Vishall's work be displayed but also tested for its realworld capability at this contest whose goal is to reward energy-efficient vehicles that are indigenously made. His Team Akruth is one of the 18 taking part from across India. So what is the USP of the vehicle designed by Vishall and Co.? "It's ecofriendly and a highly economical three-wheeled electric car," says Vishall. "Our first priority is safety and efficiency, which is why we have a
steel structure with impact resistant material and yet the vehicle is lightweight." The other highlights of the team's vehicle include a tear drop shape for least air resistance while driving, sensors for fault detections, solar panels for additional battery life and performance, and regenerative breaking for low power consumption, among others. "We focussed on efficiency on road and achieving more mileage than speed," says Vishall. It's a single seater that is highly economical and comfortable. The others in Vishall's team include Faisal, Shashank, San, Nishant, Tejas, Anmol, Aashish, Pranav, Sudarshan and Rakesh (lecturer & team lead). "We custom designed our own battery controller and battery management system," says Vishall. "The prototype cost us nearly Rs 1 lakh to make. if it were to be mass produced with high carbon fibre, it would cost around Rs 6-7 lakh."
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Banner removal drive on 27th Main!
BBMP & traffic police are yet to fix the broken road divider on 27th Main
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he divider on 27th Main near Rockview restaurant is yet to be fixed a fortnight after it was broken again by miscreants. The residents allege that auto drivers could be the culprits who broke the road divider to facilitate smoother movement, but the jury is out there.
one-ways serve no purpose and are in
last week by the BBMP. Here are a few of those shops
We urge the traffic police to make
fact more of a risk than convenience.
whose hoardings were removed.
roads one-way only after they either depute a traffic cop at such junctions during peak hours or install CCTVs that automatically issue notices to offenders. This is the only to prevent one-way violations. Otherwise, the
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advertisements put up by various brands and
shopkeepers on 27th Main Road were removed
This is a drive based on the Karnataka High Court order and a BBMP notification that no hoardings, posters or outdoor advertisements of any kind will be allowed till August 2019. Only those who are approved by the BBMP after paying a licence fee are eligible to put up the hoardings.
HSR wishlist: Remove potholes, fix streetlights, maintain parks
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ecember 1 will be a historic day in the history of HSR Layout as the first ward committee meeting was conducted on that day for both Ward 174 (HSR) and Ward 190 at the BBMP office on 9th Main Road in Sector 6, as the officials for both wards are the same in some areas like roads and drains, barring a few exceptions. This is also historic because now the monthly meetings are mandated by the Karnataka High Court and ordered by the BBMP Commissioner. It does not end there. Every first Saturday, after the meeting is conducted, the minutes of the meeting are recorded by the Assistant Revenue Officer and the citizen
complaints are forwarded to the relevant government departments for action. At the next meeting, a progress report ought to be submitted by these agencies, so that it can be shared to the
general public. The December 1 meeting began with Ward 190 at around 1030am followed by HSR Ward 174 that ended at 2pm. The top highlights were the issue of
potholes, streetlights, stray dogs and park maintenance. Barring one ward committee member, the remaining 11 were present at today's historic session. Many residents of HSR also joined in with their list of complaints that were duly recorded by the civic officials. For both the wards, Assistant R e v e nu e O f f i c e r L a k s h m i i s designated to send the report of the proceedings to the BBMP headquarters, which will in turn forward it to the Karnataka High Court. "We divided the responsibilities amongst us and noted down the complaints," said HSR health inspector Vinodh GM. "If it's an emergency issue, we get the address of
the person and try to resolve the issue immediately." Although there were issues regarding BWSSB, BESCOM, traffic and crime, only BBMP officials were present. However, the BBMP officials will forward the complaints from the residents to the relevant departments for immediate redressal. The letters to other departments will be sent out to them for action. Regarding the shabby composition of the ward committee, BNR Reddy, the chairman of the Federation of HSR Layout Residents Welfare Association, says, "We have spoken to the MLA about this and he has assured us that he will reconstitute the committee to our satisfaction."
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ast Sunday, a candle light march was conducted by HSR residents led by S Abhilash for the 60-odd missing dogs of the neighbourhood. After a brief talk at BDA complex, there was a parade to Cooljoint junction on 19th Main and back. HSR pet lovers allege that vans are coming at midnight in HSR Layout to take away stray dogs for their meat. The next time, you eat out, you could be having 'Bow Bow Biriyani' instead of beef, chicken or mutton biriyani, they allege, citing a famous case that happened recently in Chennai where a restaurant was caught selling dog meat to its patrons. In addition, relocating dogs is a violation of the Supreme Court order
that only permits the BBMP to pick up the dog for vaccination and return the dog to its original habitat. The problem happens when it's done unscientifically either by private operators or the BBMP contractors. Pressured by the VVIPs, the residents allege that they could be catching dogs and relocating them elsewhere. When that happens, the dogs get more aggressive as they form packs to defend themselves in a new territory, according to CUPA (Compassion Unlimited Plus Action) Founder Trustee Suparna Ganguly. Which is why, it's best to keep the dogs where they originally belonged. For more details about strays, read our previous story here.
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aibanna S, a 32-year-old courier delivery person with SJR Couriers lost valuables worth Rs 64,000 in Sector 3 on November 26. According to his police complaint, he had come to deliver a parcel to a house on 17th Main, 23rd cross. He had kept his courier bag with valuables worth Rs 64,000 on his two
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wheeler while going inside the house to hand over the parcel. This was between 12.10pm and 1215pm. When he returned, the bag was gone. The FIR was lodged two days later on November 28 at around 11am. The cops have filed a case of theft under Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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