Silver Jubilee Park remains out of reach for visitors

While countless commuters access the Silver Jubilee Park road, the park it is named after remains inaccessible. The Silver Jubilee Park in Dodpete has poor maintenance and the sewage pipeline’s renovation waste is dumped in the park. Cement pipes, concrete slabs, and other construction debris are dumped in different areas of the park. Visitors avoid […]

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Playgrounds give way to parks, illegal structures

Bengaluru’s unplanned growth has hit playgrounds and open spaces hard. Authorities prefer to carve parks out of playgrounds rather than upgrading them. Lack of grounds in schools adds to the problem. By Manasvi Gupta Authorities are turning open spaces into fancy parks but not into playgrounds. A 2017 survey by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship & […]

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