Park to come in abandon CA Site

Thanks to a pro-active JP Nagar I Phase residents welfare association, an encroached civic amenities site has been recovered and a park will be developed on the site, on 28th Main, 12th Cross, I Phase, JP Nagar. The association's past president, Mukund acknowledged the prompt efforts of Jayanagar MLA B.N. Vijayakumar in preventing repeated encroachments on the site. A formal puja was done to develop a park with walking tracks and beautiful landscaping on July 9. BN Vijayakumar, former corporators CK Ramamurthy, SK Nataraj and B Somashekar presided, along with Farooq, assistant engineer, Horticulture. Officials said the work be taken up in three phases. In the first phase, fencing, cleaning and leveling will be taken up, landscaping will be done in the second phase, and a walking track in the third phase. The project, said to cost  Rs 13 lakh, will be completed in three months, Farooq said.

Hailing the initiative by Vijayakumar to prevent encroachment of the CA site, social worker, Muneer Rizwan offered to sponsor children's play area equipments like a slide, swing, etc worth Rs 25,000.

Residents besieged the Jayanagar MLA about the tardy and ill-planned flyover work taken up at JP Nagar. Mukund said the authorities should have taken up the work either before or after the monsoon, and not during the rainy season. Going by the pace of the work, he said it would take 18 months and not 10 months as scheduled, and appealed for the MLA's intervention.