With an order for the Bangalore Electrical energy Provide Firm (Bescom) to shift electrical poles from the storm-water drains and lakes in Anekal taluk and close by areas but be complied with even after a yr, a residents’ collective is planning to knock on court docket doorways.
Captain Santhosh Kumar (retired), founding father of the Anekal Atmosphere Safety Federation, stated the poles posed a menace to staff and cattle, and would hamper the efforts to revive the lakes and storm-water drains.
“We have now confronted harrowing time in getting the electrical poles faraway from the lakes and rajakaluves (storm-water drains). Regardless of the order from the city deputy commissioner’s workplace, the poles are nonetheless not eliminated. Except they’re eliminated, restoration can not proceed since they pose a menace to the employees and cattle. The storm-water drain community, which is damaged due to both encroachment or different causes, is being re-established by the federal government and residents collectively. So the removing of those poles is significant for the restoration,” he stated.
Kumar additionally stated Bescom didn’t seem to have consulted the survey maps of the lakes and drains earlier than erecting the poles.
“No permission was taken from the income division earlier than these poles had been put in in lakes and drains. The court docket is the one choice left earlier than us if the orders should not complied with,” he stated.
Bengaluru City deputy commissioner Ok Srinivas informed indianexpress.com that he would take motion on the order of his predecessor J Manjunath, whose July 2021 letter to Bescom learn, “The electrical poles alongside the storm-water drain community connecting the Muthanallur lake to the Bathala lake are posing a severe menace to the lives of individuals and in addition cattle. The poles need to be eliminated instantly and shifted to a correct place.”
And in April 2021, the minor irrigation division despatched a letter to the facility utility to take away the electrical poles from the drains.
A authorities official stated that contractors encroached on the lakes and drains as a result of residents wouldn’t enable electrical poles to be erected on their land.