C.A. site measuring 18 guntas of land earmarked for park at HBR layout 5th block,1st stage swallowed by land grabbers-Request for recovery-reg...

H.B.R LAYOUT 5TH BLOCK RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

D.No.1489, 17th C main, 5th block, HBR layout, 1st stage, Bangalore-560043

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To                                                                                                                       19th Jan 10
Sri.V.Balasubramaniam, I.A.S.(Retd)
Former Addl. Chief Secretary and Chairman,
Task Force for protection of Govt. lands,
Near City Civil Court Complex,
K.G. Road, Bangalore-560009.
E-mail: taskforce09@gmail.com

Respected Sir,

Sub: C.A. site measuring 18 guntas of land earmarked for park at HBR layout 5th block,1st stage swallowed by land grabbers-Request for recovery-reg...

We would like to inform you that HBR layout was formed in the year 1986 by BDA and was transferred to CMC first and further to BBMP for easy administration, without carrying on any appropriate and proper developments, particularly in 5th block segment.

During the layout formation BDA had earmarked 18 guntas of land for a park in 18thmain; please refer the plan attached to this letter for the location of park; but even after the lapse of 22 years no park has come in this site. Due to the dereliction of duty by BDA / CMC / BBMP, the lung space, instead of being as a park for the residents, now it is occupied by slum dwellers by constructing temporary sheds for over 6 years. When land grabbers tried to knock of this prime land in 2005 and 2006, BDA demolished the illegal construction on this land and recovered it-vide news in Times of India dt.16-12-2005. Please refer the news clip and the endorsement letter dt.12-6-08 issued by BDA. This matter has been brought to BBMP’s kind notice for suitable action and to convert it as a park vides our letters dated 15/12/2005 and 22-6-09. But to our dismay nothing has happened till today. Residents of this area feel that some illegal activities are going on here during night time and fear to come out of their houses. If the authorities leave it for some more time, then land grabbers will swallow it.

Figure 1 C.A site earmarked for park, occupied by land grabbers

Figure 2 C.A site supposed to be a park lying vacant for over 21 years

Recently, we have again written a letter dt:5th Jan 10 on this matter addressed to Commissioner, BBMP with a copy to Chairman, BDA .However, we also wanted to inform you, because you are the sole authority in recovering the Govt. lands, if at all this prime land has gone already into hands of land grabbers. Sad to say instead of ‘LUNG SPACE’, we have only a big SWD (flowing with toxic & chemical effluents) running at the middle of our layout. Therefore we request you to kindly look into the matter and save this precious site from land grabbers immediately as there is no other park or CA site in this area.

Thanking you,
Regards
A.Rajagopal
Treasurer
Copy to
1). Chairman,
Bangalore Development Authority
T.Chowdaiah Road,
Kumarapark West,
Bangalore- 560020. with a request to look into the matter urgently.
Email: chmn@bdabangalore.org
2) Commissioner,
BBMP, Bangalore. with a request to look into the matter.
3). The Director,
Department of Horticulture,
Lalbagh, Bangalore 004 with a request to initiate action to convert this as a park.
E-mail : horticulturedirector@vsnl.net
P.S: We will be sending other documents by postal service.