Culvert repair blocks road for residents
At Kundalahalli, work damages water pipe. People forced to use next apartment’s exit to get to ITPL Main Road
Around 300 residents of Green Avenue road, opposite Kundalahalli Colony, are forced to use a neighbouring apartment’s exit gate to enter ITPL Main Road, after Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) took up the work of fixing a stormwater drain culvert suddenly without warning last week. The road has been blocked for vehicular movement.
BBMP Doddanekundi ward engineer Ramesh YR said, “Last week, we have received more than 150 calls from the residents of the colony. The stormwater drain was blocked and it was overflowing. So we had to remove the culvert.
“Replacing it will take another week. This caused inconvenience, so we have asked residents to use an alternative route from an apartment which exits to the main road.”
Dyas Don Bosco, maintenance manager of Sterling Shalom Apartment said, “The BBMP falsely claimed seeking permission from the apartment (association) to allow commuters to use its exit gate. The apartment did it on its own to help other residents. It has been a difficult task for the five apartments on this road to commute.
“From next week, schools reopen and there are many children who have to be dropped and picked up from the main road as the school bus cannot drop kids in front of the gate. We would like the problem solved at the earliest.”
Mahantesh, a techie and local resident said, “There is unbearable foul smell that comes from the drain which might spread to the nearby houses if not cleared soon. This is not the way the BBMP must work.
When there is no other alternative route, they should have completed the work within two days. But the work has been extended to more than a week as the BBMP broke the water pipe too while fixing the drain.”
Ramesh, assistant executive engineer, East-2 Sub-Division, BWSSB said, “During the repair of the storm water drain, the water pipe was damaged, but it was fixed on Tuesday.”
Around 300 residents of Green Avenue road, opposite Kundalahalli Colony, are forced to use a neighbouring apartment’s exit gate to enter ITPL Main Road, after Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) took up the work of fixing a stormwater drain culvert suddenly without warning last week. The road has been blocked for vehicular movement.
Residents are complaining that not only is there foul smell emanating from the stormwater drain, but they are also finding it difficult to cross the road from last week. The BBMP claimed that it had asked Sterling Shalom Apartment to open its gates for other residents of the road while the work was in progress. Apartment dwellers, on the other hand, say the BBMP actually left them high and dry.
BBMP Doddanekundi ward engineer Ramesh YR said, “Last week, we have received more than 150 calls from the residents of the colony. The stormwater drain was blocked and it was overflowing. So we had to remove the culvert.
“Replacing it will take another week. This caused inconvenience, so we have asked residents to use an alternative route from an apartment which exits to the main road.”
Dyas Don Bosco, maintenance manager of Sterling Shalom Apartment said, “The BBMP falsely claimed seeking permission from the apartment (association) to allow commuters to use its exit gate. The apartment did it on its own to help other residents. It has been a difficult task for the five apartments on this road to commute.
“From next week, schools reopen and there are many children who have to be dropped and picked up from the main road as the school bus cannot drop kids in front of the gate. We would like the problem solved at the earliest.”
Mahantesh, a techie and local resident said, “There is unbearable foul smell that comes from the drain which might spread to the nearby houses if not cleared soon. This is not the way the BBMP must work.
When there is no other alternative route, they should have completed the work within two days. But the work has been extended to more than a week as the BBMP broke the water pipe too while fixing the drain.”
Ramesh, assistant executive engineer, East-2 Sub-Division, BWSSB said, “During the repair of the storm water drain, the water pipe was damaged, but it was fixed on Tuesday.”
