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| Metro to shrink Rose Garden by 4.25 |
| file photo of Rose Garden on R.V. Road which will lose a part of its greenery for the Metro Rail.
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| INDIA
, 7-May-2007
1:16:33 AM |
| If Metro Rail will decongest Bangalore's roads, it will also reduce some of the vital lung spaces of the garden city as two of its stations and one of its terminals will come up in parks.
The 240-acre Lalbagh Botanical Garden will lose a slice of its greenery along R.V. Road for a Metro station and theRose Garden (R.V. Road boulevard from South End Circle to Marenahalli Main Road) stands to lose a sizeable area for a station and a terminal.
Lalbagh will lose 1,135 sq.m. (less than a quarter acre) and the Rose Garden will shrink by a little less than 4.25 acres of land.
This area will be taken up by the Jayanagar station that needs 672 sq.m. of the boulevard park and the R.V. Road terminal that needs 16,500 sq.m.
Shrinking
Nature lovers will be loathe to see the green cover of their city shrinking. A key official of the Horticulture Department said that the Lalbagh stretch would only be a part of its eucalyptus grove and that no rare species would be lost. Although the department has tried to protect the full area of the park by citing the Parks and Preservation Act, which does not allow non-horticultural activity within its premises, the law will be amended to provide for transfer of the land.
Rose Garden, which has a spread of 33 acres of land, will lose an eighth of its area.
The park may have to lose a few Mahogany trees, in addition to shrubs and fast-growing and flowering varieties of trees such as Gulmohar. Despite the looming land acquisition, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is developing the park.
"Let people enjoy greenery for two more years," said Basavaraj Kesari, Horticulture Superintendent (South).
Nevertheless, the loss of parks and other lung spaces is a major concern of the people.
They fear that the presence of stations will attract real estate dealers to develop the area for commercial gains, thereby further affecting the environmental balance of the fast-growing city.
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