Report of the
experiential workshop on the
“Environmental
and Developmental Challenges of Bangalore”
30 July - 1
August 1999
Bangalore
Environment Support
Group
with support from
Rotary Club of
Bangalore (South Parade)
Introduction:
Even amongst well-informed and active citizens of
Bangalore, those that make the effort to be involved in progressive citizen
action, the prevailing chaos in the management and planning of Bangalore has
obscured directions for action. As
issues compete for attention, and city administrators seem crippled in
delivering results, citizens’ groups have been left doddering in pursuit of
results. Not willing to give in to
frustration and cynicism and yet unclear on focussing energies for action is a
complex dilemma that has confused well meaning citizen initiatives. Being out of depth in understanding the
patterns of this complexity is certainly not a welcome scenario if the
prognosis for progressive citizen action has got to be anything better than
bleak.
In such context, Environment Support Group and
Rotary Club of Bangalore (South Parade) took the initiative to bring together
active representatives from various non-governmental organisations (NGOs),
community based organisations (CBOs) and the mass media to address the problems
and prospects for Bangalore. Issues
relating to city planning, administrative structures and functioning of public
utilities were addressed. Equal
attention was paid as well to issues of local concern such as neighbourhood
problems, the distressing condition in our slums, risk to pedestrians, impact
of pollution on one’s health, the power crisis and a range of other
issues.
The training process adopted was
unconventional. Almost all the effort
in the workshop was focussed on appreciating the intricacies of the issues
based on field experience and interaction with experts and local
communities. Experts met the group on
field, and facilitated group interactions that supported learning experiences
more dynamically than would have been possible were the same done in a
classroom.
For the participants one thing seemed clear. That
being active citizens continuously confronted by various issues at differing
scales of impact, to be informed was necessary. But to actually experience the impacts, even if momentarily, and
with the supportive advise of experts demonstrating pathways of tackling
complex problems, was a learning experience that would help intervene
progressively. The workshop achieved
exactly that goal: bridging experience of critical issues of concern with an
in-depth understanding of
Inherent dynamics, and focussing progressive action
strategies towards evolving just and benign solutions.
The Process of
the workshop:
The workshop was held over three days, wherein there
was a healthy mixture of experiential field trips, thematic presentations,
group discussions, and reflective sessions.
What follows is a Process based report of events as they occurred in the
workshop.
Introduction:
“Bangalore is a growing city and its problems are
becoming increasingly complex. We
experience and appreciate the nature of these problems, which sometimes results
in citizen action. However, given the scale of the problems citizens of
Bangalore confront today, there is a need to channelise and
co-ordinate citizen efforts today. A critical need remains to provide
information which would evolve perspectives for action.” Stating thus, the process of the workshop
was initiated by Leo Saldanha, Coordinator of Environment Support Group. He explained how this workshop was
different, the pattern of presentations to follow, the variety of expertise
that had been coordinated for more effective learning, the range of government
support that had been secured, and the type of facilitation ESG would provide
in a
post-workshop follow-up.
Typically, he explained, the following was the focus
of the workshop:
q Enabling participants to relate to issues of concern and
problems both at the individual and community base levels.
q Perspective building towards
enabling benign solutions and developing effective and efficient choices in
alleviating existing problem situations.
q Understanding the
intricacies of organising Local Communities and guiding them towards
progressive citizen action.
q Appreciating the dynamics of
bringing elected representatives, bureaucracy and expert institutions closer to
people’s problems.
q Enabling individual growth
towards providing resource support for community action.
What follows is a report of various sessions that
followed.
The Urban Division of the Karnataka State Forest
Department facilitated this session.
The location chosen was Hebbal Tank, which is presently being desilted
to increase its storage. The Forest
Department also has a “tree saplings” nursery here. The idea of visiting this site was to appreciate the uniqueness
of our wetlands (which tanks are, even though all are artificial), and
understand the threats they face.
Mr. Venkatesh, IFS, Deputy Conservator of Forests
(Bangalore Urban) and his team took the group around the Hebbal tank site
explaining the various features of the desilting operations underway. As they explained, even though there is such
an acute shortage of water with the burgeoning population in Bangalore, loss of
wetlands continue. That would have a
very detrimental effect on the recharge potential of our water table, they
explained.
Considering over 20% of the water consumed in
Bangalore is from ground water sources, the problem is very serious indeed.
It was explained that to mitigate this problem, the
forest department was handed charge of maintaining 114 tanks (colloquially and
wrongly addressed as “lakes”) in and around the city based on the Lakshman Rao
Committee recommendations during the mid-eighties. Much of the Urban Division’s human and financial resources were
being spent in fighting to retain the wetlands, either with encroachers
directly or through the courts. Thus,
very little effort could be focussed on developing them.
Only recently has there been some effort towards
developing these tanks, largely enabled by the National Lake Conservation
Programme. Hebbal Tank was one of the few chosen, and the desilting, habitat
improvement and aesthetic design of the region was part of this process, it was
explained.
The participants were then taken to the T.
Narasipura tank where the potentialities for citizen-government collaboration
became apparent. Here because of the
active interest of local communities, especially the BEL Township association,
not only was a secondary sewage treatment plant established to treat
contaminated inflow into the tank, but the area was developed into an idyllic
park with bridges, boating, parks, libraries and jogging tracks, as well. The quality of water was very eutrophic,
still, yet the possibility of retaining the area for public use did seem a very
positive sign, considering that in most cases tanks were lost to encroachment,
or development in violation of the Government’s land use policies and laws.
Parthenium:
How much of a menace?
Parthenium hysterophorus (the “weed” that people
cursed in the name of a party!) was during the eighties topping hotly debated
environmental concerns of Bangalore. Of
late, there is rare mention of it. The
workshop participants got to know how this environmental “nightmare” was (re)
solved when they met Dr. K. P. Jayant, Managing Director of Bio-Control
Research Laboratories, at the Nagavara Tank.
Dr. Jayant, previously with the Indian Institute for
Horticultural Research (IIHR), was primary amongst those who identified an
environmental friendly solution to control the spread of this “weed”. Considering that this plant was endemic to
the Mexican region, IIHR had successfully found a beetle from the region that
was completely dependent on the plant for its entire life cycle. Following quarantine tests, the insect was
found suitable for limited release in Bangalore, which Dr. Jayant monitored for
almost a decade. The result was that
the beetle spread by itself far and wide, enabled by controlled releases in
high impact areas across the country, and the result: the tall 6 feet stands of
Parthenium that were such a common sight, is hardly visible today. Moreover, hundreds of other endemic shrubs
that had become “extinct” due to the dramatic spread of Parthenium were seen to
be making a comeback.
Dr. Jayant highlighted the various technical
features of this control mechanism, debated the various controversies
(including calm interventions that successfully contained false fears of
farmers that the beetle was taking to sunflower), and explained how the active
support of Bangalore citizenry had helped find community solutions to a problem
that otherwise seemed impossible to solve.
Taking the opportunity of being in the field the plant-insect
relationship was explained and as a fringe benefit, participants also got to
know another successful initiative of Dr. Jayant: that of controlling the water
hyacinth via bio-control methods. The
benefit to environment and health that was secured from avoiding the hundreds
of tonnes of weedicides that would otherwise have been sprayed can only be
imagined!
Formal Inauguration of the Programme:
This was conducted at the Indian Social Institute,
the venue of the workshop. Lauding the efforts of Environment Support Group and
Rotary Club of Bangalore (South Parade) in taking such initiatives, the Rotary
District Governor Mr. Narasimhan Ramji, recommended that such initiatives must
be encouraged by more Rotary Clubs. He
also suggested that ESG must systematize this initiative with the support of
Rotary, and commended the Rotary (South Parade) for supporting the initiative. The gathering which included participants
and members of the Club were invited by South Parade President Mr. Baliga and
the Vote of Thanks proposed by Mr. U. B. Bhat.
Also speaking on the occasion, Mr. William Saldanha, Secretary of the
Club confirmed that the unique nature of such collaborations would be further
strengthened.
Visit to a
Sewage Treatment Plant:
The day started early with a not so pleasant visit
to the Vrishabhavathi Sewage Water Treatment Plant. The main purpose was to understand the mechanisms involved in
running the facility, the scale of the problem, and what, if anything, could
citizens do to ensure our waste does not contaminate the water sources of our
downstream neighbours. It was
facilitated with the support of Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, and
its Facility Engineer, Mr. Ravishankar, explained the various features of the
plant, the technology involved, and the problems faced by them.
For almost all participants this was the first ever
visit to a sewage treatment facility.
The nauseating experience aside, the groups came away quite impressed
with Mr. Ravishankar’s persistence in fixing the problem, in a system where
little resource support and financial investment flowed for such critical
environmental remedies. The fieldtrip
highlighted how lopsided planning was allowing our watercourses and ground
water aquifers to be contaminated, often beyond recourse, the upsetting pattern
of recycling this toxic pollution as farmers used sewage to grow vegetables
that Bangaloreans finally consumed, and the easily avoidable impact on the
city’s hinterland. Whilst there was no
questioning the need for more investment in such facilities, the fact that such
a basic requirement in city planning was amongst the most neglected sectors was
focussed.
Notwithstanding all systemic deficiencies, the fact
that Secondary Sewage treatment of Bangalore’s sewage was only just beginning,
when this was standard requirement since the Water Act was introduced in 1974,
reflected the
extent to which the Government was serious in taking
care of pollution problems.
Traffic Planning and Management:
A quintessential feature of urban living is
mobility, and the easier, safer and healthier the mode, the greater the quality
of life. Bangalore, undoubtedly, is
nowhere close to matching such base values of traffic planning and
management. In such a scenario, serving
as Commissioner of Traffic Planning and Road Safety is not necessarily the most
comfortable of positions. Yet this
challenging task has been converted quite ably into a dynamic, research based,
change oriented exercise by Mr. M. N. Reddy, IPS, serving in his capacity as
Deputy Inspector General of Police.
Mr. Reddy was able to anticipate most questions that
the participants had. He began with
submissions: That yes, Bangalore’s traffic is chaotic. Yes, the Government has not done enough to
deal with this crisis. Yes, this
amounts to
neglecting one of the most critical of the urban
sectors. And yes, there was no
long-term planning to save future generations from the existing chaos either.
The problem he explained was not so much the lack of
solutions, as it was the lack of willingness to change. The police force was essentially on the
receiving end for problems created by bad planning and design of the city’s
transport infrastructure; was at best trying to minimise the risk at the user
end; and could only operate within the constraints of the existing
facilities. Such being the case, when
the need was to immediately move towards affordable public transport means,
thus limiting the need to use private vehicles, he distressingly acknowledged
that several grandiose schemes were being sanctioned, which did not prove to be
worthwhile in the long run.
Consequently, remedial measures as declaring one-way
zones were the only options left to the traffic police. With the minimum resources available it was
even trying to improve traffic lighting and other road safety measures, he
said. Mr. Reddy reasoned that a well-strategised
and effective public
lobbying process could introduce rationale towards
an ongoing process of citizen-police engagement and was most willing to support
such processes.
He endorsed the need for effective local community
mobilisation to deal with local traffic and transport problems, which was one
immediate solution to remedy the situation.
Over time this would develop pressure for publicly relevant projects at
the city scale.
In the discussion that followed, the participants
decided to work on the traffic problems in the Residency Road, Richmond Road,
and M. G. Road hub to try and mobilise the high concentration of educational
institutions and business centres to evolve solutions that would ensure free
flow of traffic and improved public transport use.
‘Power’ deals:
Mr. Arun Kumar Agarwal, who was the principal litigant
in the corruption case against Cogentrix, was invited to address the impact on
consumers from such badly negotiated deals.
Having won the PIL at the High Court Stage, the CBI enquiry that had
been ordered into the deal had been stayed by the Supreme Court, which had
reserved its judgement on the matter in January 1999, he informed. He explained his case as one where an
insignificantly small US power company had taken the entire rationale building
and decision-making apparatus for a ride, and the enormous sops this deal would
provide them was an unsustainable burden on the State and thus the consumer.
A case study of a MNC-Government deal in the power
sector was discussed, whereby the incongruencies in the project proposal were
of such magnitude that corruption was suspected. Though the ordinary citizen
would benefit from the setting up of the power plant, the cost at which this
would be achieved, as it was worked out, makes one wonder at the so called
transparency of the government, he argued.
Though environment and development would benefit all
when they work in tandem, it hardly seems to be the case because a number of
environmental concerns had not been addressed in the project, he concluded.
Threats to Wildlife Habitats in the Bangalore region:
Mr. S. Sridhar, publisher of the Newsletter for
Birdwatchers, through an impressive slide presentation confronted the
participants with the devastating extent to which the urban sprawl and
ineffective management of forests neighbouring Bangalore had threatened
wildlife and their habitats. As a
result of decreasing forest cover, increasing density of animals, large
herbivores were forced to come in search of forage into human settlements. Whilst this was essentially relegated to
rural outbounds, of late there had been growing incidents when large herds of
elephants, for instance, were making way deep into the city’s woodlands. Whilst this posed risk of human-elephant
conflicts, the inevitable danger was to the animals, as people resorted to
various crude methods to injure or kill the animals. Even though the extent of such rearguard tactics to fight the
beasts of the forests was sparse, if no effective measures were adopted soon
enough, then there would be not much of a buffer between the city and its neighbouring
forests. This would further accentuate
the impact of the city on the wildlife habitats. He demonstrated how the Bannerghatta National Park was
increasingly under threat because of the city’s growth.
Digressing from this theme, he demonstrated how
“Ritual Animal Sacrifice” was a clear instance of how little was being achieved
in terms of according protection to wild animals, despite a plethora of laws
and official wherewithal. He suggested
that whist there were well meaning efforts from a
variety of government agencies and citizens groups,
not enough was being achieved to remedy the vast scale of the problem.
‘A Visit to Lakshman Rao Nagar Slum”:
Lakshman Rao Nagar Slum is the largest slum of
Bangalore. It stretches for over three
kilometres between the Hosur and Koramangala Roads, and was originally the
Kormangala Tank Bed. During the
sixties, in an effort to accommodate the expanding railway network for the
city, the population which was then resident near the City Railway Station were
moved to the tank bed, and without providing any support whatsoever, left to
deal with the ominous task of rebuilding their lives and homes from
scratch. This inhuman feat of the
Government was achieved during the monsoon, and the hundreds of families were
forced to landfill their area by their own labour to mitigate the impact of
flooding, even as they had to develop their own shelters.
The area today is very densely developed with a
strange mixture of single room and twin storey concrete buildings, jostling
with tin structures and thatched structures that pass for housing large
families. Nudged between them are
hutments, hundreds of them, often built with plastic and other city refuge. A single street that runs along the slum is
the main link to the highly developed neighbouring areas. And along this road, runs a two-inch water
pipe that serves all the water needs for a population that now exceeds 50,000.
Early on a Sunday morning, to be confronted with the
stomach churning details of urban slum living was a shocking experience for the
participants. Dr. Shirdi Prasad
Tekur, a Community Health Expert and Selva, a social
worker (and workshop participant) working with the slum dwellers, accompanied
the group in a morning long study of the living conditions in the area.
The conditions were appalling, as the very basic
necessities of life were not available. The drinking water pipelines were
located close to the drainage pipes, which often resulted in the contamination
of the water, metal sheets housed as many as 12 families, no roads, no sewerage
connection, low lying land that resulted in flooding during the rains,
malnutrition among the children, alcoholism, etc., were some initial
observations.
A particularly revealing representation of the
neglect they suffered was the manner in which water was provided to them. A single 2-inch pipe ran the length of the
street about 5 feet below surface, with intermittent water fountains. Quite obviously the pressure was very low in
the pipe and thus the water would never climb to the fountain height. To get to the water, ever so often, the
community had dug pits to reach the water pipeline underground, cracked it, and
scooped the water collected in the pit for use. This continues to be an every day situation and those worst hit
are women and children. Various NGOs
work in the area, but none have seen the need of improving the water
facilities. Consequently the manner in
which the water is collected contributes the main risk to health of the
community. In an attempt to alleviate
this daily suffering, some NGOs have built concrete walls around the pit with
steps descending in to help scoop the water out! When the correct thing to have
done was to put a network of pipes and increase the pressure of supply so the
community would not suffer daily for life's most basic necessity.
Some semblance of improving their conditions were
evident by flats which had been built, but not in a state to be occupied, much
less to be lived in. The lure of the city had enticed these people into moving
in, but as an unrecognized part of the urban community. The dwellers explained
how despite various representations to the Slum Development Board and related
government agencies not much had resulted.
The grouse was lack of money for such spending. Yet, as the dwellers pointed out, there
seemed to be no dearth of money for the National Games Township of over 2,000
flats that was built in violation of land use planning and snatching away the
only open space available to the slum dwellers. They explained how despite their protests, the construction
proceeded, and how their resistance was sabotaged by setting their slums on
fire during 1995.
The group then proceeded to visit the National Games
Township, the biggest housing development ever achieved in Karnataka. Even after four years of the construction of
the Township, ostensibly to combine the housing needs of the
athletes for the National Games held in 1996 (for
eleven days), and the people of Bangalore, most flats remained vacant. The beneficiaries of this fiasco were none
other than Government servants who got the flats on measly rents, as the flats
that were poorly designed and constructed could not be resold commercially.
‘Urban city planning or rather the lack of it’:
The variety of problems and issues that were
experienced over the two and half days of the workshop had generated a lot of
discussion on where lay the problem, and what were the solutions. Rationalising the conflicting priorities of
city development and management, with the need to sustain a
reasonably good environmental quality and the rights
of the citizens, remained an enormous challenge for a city. Despite being replete with resources, human
and monetary, the city had simply failed to keep up with the promise that it
was during the sixties and the seventies.
Dr. Subbarayan Prasanna, Professor of Urban and
Regional Planning (Retd.) from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
sketched a history of the city’s planning and development, comparing the city's
evolution to what are generally accepted standards of design and systematic
development for supporting a healthy and balanced growth of an urban area. He explained how the lack of conception of
a coherent planning strategy during the sixties and seventies and the wilful
violation of land use laws by planning agencies, commercial groups and
individuals had resulted in the chaotic status of the city at present. Most neighbourhoods had been developed in
violation of standard urban and environmental planning norms and given the
increasing burden of population the quality of life had worsened even
further. Such a dismal state was
largely a result of the unwillingness of the bureaucracy and political
leadership to take steps to mitigate the negative impacts of past mistakes, and
initiate progressive action to remedy the situation in consultation with
communities and experts.
In response to this depressing state of governance,
citizen action had turned progressive and quality of such interventions was
improving rapidly. This is a process
that has to be encouraged by law, he felt.
Yet, various senior functionaries of the Government had willfully
stymied the potential of improving urban living by effectively derailing some
very progressive features of decentralisation in the Nagarpalika Act,
especially the provision of citizen involvement through Ward Committees.
‘Judicial responses to Bangalore’s environmental and
developmental challenges’:
The last session of the workshop was in addressing
the potentialities of the final legal recourse of citizens when all other wings
of governance failed: the Judiciary.
Justice Balakrishna, Retired Judge of the High Court of Karnataka was
invited to deliberate on the theme.
Justice Balakrishna’s message was direct and
simple. He said should there be any
abandonment of the legally endowed process in city planning and management, and
should any effort of the citizenry to get the Government to
remedy the situation fail, by a process of
representation or similar means, the citizen, affected community, or a public
interest group had the right to agitate their concerns in the Court of
Law. And the Court was law bound to
treat the petition in the wider Public Interest, if all other malafide
intentions were settled in the mind of the Judge.
The Public Interest Litigation had made enormous
progress in India, he said, and had been especially helpful in setting right
systemic wrongs. This really mattered
when significant human rights violations were systemically condoned, or serious
environmental problems were not being attended to. The reach of the Court being enormous, he encouraged citizens to
utilise this constitutionally endowed forum to mitigate urban and environmental
problems. He, however, lamented that
despite the increasing recourse of citizen action to approach the Courts with
Public Interest Litigations, the attitude seemed to be one of discouraging such
progressive action, rather than encouraging it. And further the quality of judgements was not adequately
reflecting the possibilities of setting right wrongs as enabled by law.
He concluded by suggesting that there was a great
need for awareness among the public that the law was meant to be implemented
and where this was not the case, to bring it to the notice of the court.
‘Evaluation
and Conclusion’:
The workshop concluded with the comments and remarks
of the participants being recorded, both by a process of discussion and as well
by individual statements. The usefulness of the experiential component of the
workshop was repeatedly made by most of the participants who thoroughly enjoyed
the first hand experience this workshop provided. The participants expressed
the need to stay in touch and follow up on issues of common concern.
A representative sample of some of the responses is
provided below:
v "highly innovative as a workshop module.Very illuminating"
v "very informative. There is a difference between theoretically
analyzing/ discussing/ reading/ writing about poverty and actually seeing
poverty"
v "field trips were definitely informative and it was the specialty
of the seminar"
v " the field trips were the best part of the programme. The sites
spoke for themselves. It gave us a good picture about the existing
infrastructure, the finance, the organizations working behind them, he role of
the government. It certainly broadened our perspectives"
|
Resource Person |
Organisation |
Designation |
Address |
Contact Number |
|
Mr.
Venkatesh |
Karnataka
State Forest Department |
Deputy
Conservator of Forests(B'lore Urban) |
Aranya
Bhavan,18th Cross Malleshwaram, B’lore- 560003 |
3343464 |
|
Dr. B. K.
Chakrapani |
Dept of
Forest,Ecology & Environment |
Scientific
Officer |
Govt. of
Karnataka, MS
Building, B’lore-560001, |
2253392
(o) 6693087 ® |
|
Dr. K. P.
Jayant |
Bio
Control Labs |
|
PO Box
3228,479,5th Cross, HMT Layout, RT Nagar,
B'lore-560032 |
3330168 |
|
Mr.D.N.Ravi
shankar |
Vrishabharathi
Valley Sewage Treatment Plant |
Ass.Exe
Engineer |
Nayandahalli
Post, Mysore
Road,B’lore-560039 |
8601787 |
|
Dr.M.B.Krishna |
Ornithologist |
Centre for
Wildlife Studies |
The
Heritage,10 RangaRaoRd, Shankarapuram,B'lore-560004 |
6610528 |
|
Mr.Leo.F.Saldanha |
Environment
Support Group |
Co-ordinator |
36,Reservoir
Road,Basavanagudi, B’lore-560004 |
6614855 |
|
Mr.M.N.Reddy |
Karnataka
State Police Department |
Traffic
Commissioner |
Police
Headquarters, Nruputhanga
Rd,B'lore-560001 |
2210431 |
|
Mr.Arun
Agarwal |
|
Public
Interest Activist |
5511181 |
|
|
Mr.S
Sridhar |
INCERT |
Co-ordinator |
10,Sirur
Park, B Street, Seshadripuram, B’lore-560020 |
3364142 |
|
Dr. Shirdi
Prasad Tekur |
|
Community
Health Specialist |
City
Clinic, 8th M ain,2nd
Block,Jayanagar,B'lore-560011 |
6710740 ® 6340225
(o) |
|
Mr.Selva |
Jansahayog |
|
Ranga
Apartment, Kengal Hanumanthaiah Road, Bangalore-560027 |
2243723 |
|
Dr.
Subrayan Prassana |
IIM-B |
Professor
of Urban and Regional Planning (Retd.) |
A-207,Ideal
GaganVihar, Ideal
Homes Township, B'lore-560039 |
8602252 |
|
Justice
Balakrishna |
|
Retd High
Court Judge |
100Ring
Road,774,15th Cross, JP Nagar 1st Phase,B'lore-560078 |
6630935 |
List of
Participants:
|
Participant list |
Profession |
Organisation |
Address |
City/Pincode |
ContactNo |
|||||
|
Ms.Malini |
Journalist |
Freelance |
1/1,Police
Station Road, Basavanagudi |
Bangalore-560004 |
6677090 |
|||||
|
Mr.Ravi
Talwar |
Manager |
Shriram
Properties (P) Ltd |
1,Prime
Street, Richmond Town |
Bangalore-560025 |
(r )
2211000 (o) 3311969 |
|||||
|
Ms.Aparna
Datta |
Consultant |
Crucible |
1C,Fernhill
Gardens(EW) 46, Ring Road, H.S.R Layout |
Bangalore-560034 |
5721579 |
|||||
|
Ms.Karthiyayeni
Chamaraj |
Journalist |
Freelance |
22, KH
Road, Shanthi Nagar |
Bangalore-560027 |
2233031 |
|||||
|
Ms.Sharmila |
Teacher |
St.Aloysius
High School |
Cox Town |
Bangalore-560005 |
5514826 |
|||||
|
Mr.Prabhakar |
Lecturer,
Dept of Envt. Science |
St.Joseph's
College |
Dept For
Environmental Science, Residency Road |
Bangalore-560025 |
2211429 |
|||||
|
Ms.Bhargavi
S Rao |
Researcher |
|
Apt B-2
Kumbha Mansion 7th Main, Naidu Layout, Banashankari 3rd Stage |
Bangalore-560085 |
6790027 |
|||||
|
Ms.Marian
Daniels |
Writer |
Freelance |
PO Box
8419, St.Thomas Town Post |
Bangalore-560084 |
5467948 |
|||||
|
Ms.Dharma
Somashekar |
NGO |
Sanmathi |
1188,3rd
Cross, 26th Main,1st Phase, JP Nagar |
Bangalore-560078 |
6636291 |
|||||
|
Ms.Uma Rajagopalan |
NGO |
Sanmathi |
1188,3rd
Cross, 26th Main,1st Phase, JP Nagar |
Bangalore-560078 |
6636291 |
|||||
|
Mr.Shivarudraiah |
NGO |
Service
India Trust |
Kowdenahally |
Bangalore-560016 |
8518485 |
|||||
|
Ms.Poornima |
NGO |
Centre For
Environment Education |
Kamala Mansion, 143,Infantry Road |
Bangalore-560001 |
2862167 |
|||||
|
Mr.Ravi |
Lecturer
and NSS Instructor |
St
Joseph’s College of Commerce |
704, 4th
A Cross, 7th Main,1st Block, Kalyananagar |
Bangalore-560043 |
(college) 5570955 (r ) 5458717 |
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Mr.Subramani |
Environmental
Engineer |
KUIDFC |
8,
Cunningham Rd KSCMS Building,
2nd Floor, |
Bangalore-560052 |
2283485
Ext Ext 18 |
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Mr.Selva |
NGO |
Jansahayog |
Ranka
apartments Ground
Floor KH Road |
Bangalore-560001 |
2243723 |
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Mr.Samuel
AP Kumar |
NGO |
AVORD |
Lakshmipuram, Srinivasapura
Taluk,Kolar Dist |
563135 |
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Ms.Christina |
Writer |
Freelance |
40 KC
Road, R S
Palayam, M S Nagar |
Bangalore-560033 |
5467948 |
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Ms.Sowmya |
Writer |
Freelance |
121, B
Street, Veerana
Gardens, Frazer
Town, |
Bangalore-560005 |
5542609 |
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Report
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36, Reservoir Road
Basavanagudi
Bangalore 560 004
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