Save Bangalore move launched

Save Bangalore move launched
DH News Service, Bangalore:
A number of citizens associations have joined the newly formed Platform of Citizens Associations (PCA) of the City that it has launched a Save Bangalore initiative.

The degradation in social and cultural values has earned Bangalore the dubious distinction of being a ‘wheezing and sneezing city’. So alarmed at Bangalore’s journey from Garden City to Garbage City is the newly formed Platform of Citizens’ Associations (PCA) of the City that it has launched a ‘Save Bangalore’ initiative.
A number of citizens’ associations have joined the movement, with ‘Save and nourish all that we cherish’ as its motto, to discuss and find out solutions to the increasingly acute civic problems.
The PCA, whose convenor is Dr B R Manjunath, aims at providing a “joint response and feedback” from all such association to these problems - traffic jams, water scarcity, high pollution levels, a spiralling crime graph, cultural degradation, escalating land prices and high cost living. The platform will try to get corporators, MLAs and city planners “to listen and respond to people’s demands and queries”.
The PCA has demanded a pro-people, cost-effective and time-bound blueprint for the allround development of Bangalore, construction of “need-based” flyovers and grade separators, more well-equipped government- and corporation-run hospitals, more schools and colleges, and measures to check encroachment on parks/playgrounds.
Those who want to join may contact 23561443/23561257.