Hyderabad

chakrie Dear Gopi, I sincerely appreciate your effort in getting things done. Great support from Mr. Ramesh Gupta and Krishna. Action from the government officials is highly appreciated. Everybody.. Please thank them which will motivate to resolve lot of other solutions.
over 2 years ago

Gopi Concrete has been put here. Request everybody to thank the concerned people by clicking on the thanks button.
over 2 years ago

Gopi Gopi Krishna marked this issue as fixed.
over 2 years ago

Gopi Spoke again to Mr Ramesh Gupta (EE) and Mr Krishna (AE, # 9177701929)
Mr Krishna told that they will fix it in a week.

It might help if more people call or give a group representation

over 2 years ago

Gopi Just spoke to Mr Ramesh Gupta again. Looks like he was told that the work was done. He assured over phone that they will fill the road cut with cement.
Mr Ramesh Gupta is the EE for the whole of Seringampally which makes it difficult for him to look at the entire area. He was saying that he will be glad if we can represent the issues of the community together to him.
PS: Request you to vote by clicking on "I want it fixed" in addition to the comments.
over 2 years ago

Pradeep This Pothole is Car killer as well as backbone killer, I wish GHMC officers drive thru these roads !
over 2 years ago

Prasuna I want this fixed
over 2 years ago

Prasad I want this fixed. My sincere appreciation for timely action.
over 2 years ago

Gopi Just now I got a call from Mr Nageshwara Rao, Dy EE (ph# 9849906779) who said that the dug up road will be fixed in 2 days by filling it with concrete.

Also, sent a mail to ee_spally2@ghmc.gov.in informing them of the issue
over 2 years ago

Ashish Yes, We want it fixed.
over 2 years ago

Yogendrachari I want this need to be fixed
over 2 years ago

Gopi I just spoke to Mr Ramesh Gupta at above mentioned number. He said that his person will be inspecting it today and will take necessary action.
over 2 years ago

Gopi Just called up the call center and got this information.
This is supposed to be looked at by one Mr Ramesh Gupta who is the EE (Executive Engineer) for this area.

From the GHMC website, phone number is 9959442440 and email id is ee_spally2@ghmc.gov.in


over 2 years ago

Gopi I reported this issue at 040-23226982. The person who answered the phone took all my details (seems they will call up to find out the issue)
Complaint number is 4581
When I reminder her that the SLA given by GHMC for the fixing of potholes is 3 days, she told me that I will get a call from them in 3 days and the issue will be fixed in a week. She also told me that I don't need to file a complaint in the GHMC website.
Shall update everybody once I hear from them.
over 2 years ago

Gopi Did you know that when the crucial permission to "allow 2 floors of construction over riding the previous no-permanant-structures-shall-be-allowed in botanical gardens" was given, our A Raja, ie spectrum Raja was the minister of environment and forests
Raja's Tenure as minister of environment and forests: May 23, 2004 to May 17, 2007
This is when most of the damaging permissions and decisions on botanical gardens were taken.
over 2 years ago

Kalyan This is an amazing accomplishment, Kudos to citizen's who worked for this cause.

over 2 years ago

Gopi Gopi Krishna marked this issue as fixed.
over 2 years ago

Gopi Jairam Ramesh ordered stopping of construction activity in botanical gardens and withdrawed environmental clearance given to the project

Citizen Activism Works! Kudos to all the citizens and specifically, the residents of SLN springs who fought relentlessly against the illegal project

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/environment-ministry-withdraws-clearance-to-andhra-tourism-project/articleshow/7676680.cms

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Jairam-stops--eco-tourism--project-in-Andhra/760937/
over 2 years ago

Gopi Thanks to the efforts of people involved with botanical gardens bachao (esp people from SLN Lumbini) the citizens case was presented to the officials. Some of the salient points:
a. Citizens conveyed in very clear terms that they want the project to be scrapped as it is doing harm to the forest area.
b. We are objecting to the project not just as people residing in the neighborhood, but as citizens of India who want law of the land to prevail and forest area conserved and not "given away" for massive commercialization in the name of eco-tourism
Request everybody to share this and vote for the issue as this will help us in garnering support. (officials noted both the citizensocial as well as facebook page)
c. Citizens also conveyed to the officials that they will take care of planting the trees themselves if required
d. They expressed thorough dissatisfaction at the developer going ahead and cutting thousands of trees despite the court giving a stay order. It seems a contempt case is being filed.
e. It seems the report will go upto Jairam Ramesh, our progressive Environment and Forests Minister

Request others to add anything else that I have missed
over 2 years ago

Gopi message from jagadish:
We are happy to inform you that based on our representation, The Chief Conservator of Forests, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Regional Office, Bangalore is coming to Botanical Gardens to investigate the violations and deforestation going on in our neighborhood.

We need to represent our case in this hearing strongly. Hence we request everyone to gather in large numbers tomorrow i.e. on 29th Dec at 11.00 AM at Lumbini SLN Springs Club House. Please pass on this message to all like minded citizens who are willing to fight for saving the Botanical Gardens with a request to join at the Club House.

Regards

Jagdish
over 2 years ago

gopi RTI response of GHMC published in times of india @
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/GHMC-tells-MLA-to-cough-up-Rs-3L-for-building-plan-info/articleshow/7101738.cms
over 2 years ago

sanghamitra The Botanical Garden must be preserved as a garden with various types of plants, trees and flowering plants adorning the garden.This plan of the authorities to build a convention centre, a hotel and various other structures should be totally squashed and no construction work should be permitted.Hyderabadis, please rise to the occasion and save the Botanical Garden from vanishing!!!
over 2 years ago

sujatha Our politicians / bearocrats are enough corrupt. Save atleast the environment please...
over 2 years ago

gopi GHMC has asked 2,39,249/- for giving RTI response to Hon MLA !
In another report, it has asked for 84,460

http://www.citizensocial.com/uploads/issues/654622540d94764dff9aeef2770e152ecf1391f0.pdf
over 2 years ago

Gopi Protest against destruction of Botanical Gardens at the Hyderabad 10k on 28th November
Folks living near Kondapur can join the group from SLN Lumbini Springs at 5.30AM and board buses (max capacity - 200, first come first serve).
Folks coming from other parts of the city can join at 6.30AM at People's Plaza. Can identify the group from the posters, banners and t-shirts.
Folks will walk in solidarity at the 10k event and will try to get attention to our cause.
over 2 years ago

hari Meeting for "Save Botanical Gardens" tonite 7:30PM at Lumbini SLN Springs ClubHouse, Gachibowli (on gachibowli-kondapur main road).
Pl inform your friends.
over 2 years ago

Gopi From: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ncs-group-to-tiefunds-for-botanical-gardens-soon/344870/

Hyderabad-based NCS Group will achieve financial closure for its Botanical Gardens project by March 2009. The Rs 200crore project is coming up in the forest reserve land at Kondapur here and is being executed in public-private partnership with the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation...

Speaking to Business Standard, group managing director N Nageswara Rao said in Phase I the garden would be developed in 18 sectors spread over 120 acre. It would have about 5,000 species of plants, including several varieties sourced from botanical gardens across the world.
over 2 years ago

Gopi http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article905179.ece
over 2 years ago

Prts Its amazing how the government can approve of this. How these money minting business people get all such ideas. Am sure a lot of politicians and officers got paid off a lot for this approval. Shame! I have heard a lot about what will come up there....1. a prospective amusement park...2. state of the art apartments and houses. 3. Commercial complexes...4.Soem five star hotel !!! I mean i heard that something of the scale of Disney is on the cards! I cannot express how fuming mad Iam. Are they out of their minds! This is a botanical garden....why cant they leave it as it is.
All these officials want to make money....am telling you people....unless there's noise from the common citizen... the size of Hiroshima....nobody is going to do anything about it!!!!
over 2 years ago

Gopi It will be very sad if we cannot protect this. I looked into the facebook page for this, but it looks like there is no activity since 2 weeks. Do we know how to go about finding the information for this.

This page can act as a signature collection mechanism as only registered users can ask for "I want this fixed".

Also, I couldnt see any update in the RTI activity. Lets hope some information comes out of it. RTI itself is a painfully slow process as they can take 30 days.
over 2 years ago

Shashi Shashi Rekha marked this issue as fixed.
about 1 year ago

Kalyan Excellent work Muralidhar
over 2 years ago

Gopi This was very useful for the people staying in whitefields around this area.
Thanks to acropolis association for following it up and reducing the traffic going through whitefields
over 2 years ago

Soumya About 12 yrs back in Noida, we used to shop groceries from Mother Dairy outlet and they had the same philosophy - you can either bring your own non-plastic bag or carry the stuff in your hand or buy a jute bag from them. Worked quite well.
over 2 years ago

Gopi It is these small gestures that make a huge difference when everybody does this. Our thanks to the Y2K shopkeeper.

Akshay, thanks for posting it here
over 2 years ago

Gopi Does anybody know what is the time frame for fixing this?
over 2 years ago

Majeed The road is often used as a construction material dump yard by the adjoining builders. Many a times trucks with materials are parked with unloading happening. Very dangerous for school children and pedstrians. Drastic action required by GHMC officials and local police to get the road cleared and impose fines for those violating same.
over 2 years ago

Pradeep agreed this should be fixed by GHMC asap
over 2 years ago

Yatheen This will be complete by Nov. Works are going in a fast pace. http://kukatpallynow.com/traffic-and-roads/64-traffic-and-roads-hitec-flyover.html
10 months ago

Yatheen http://kukatpallynow.com/templates/kukatpallynow/images/JPAcknowledgedBig.jpg
10 months ago

Yatheen Dr. JP garu recently talked about this issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veghuxsTPOI&;
11 months ago

Yatheen This the issue with no pre planning and the system is tangled by itself and getting delayed. JP sir was personally following the moving of the files and also got the extra cost money sanctioned. This situation we are in is because of the traditional parties improper planning and not making Railways and GHMC some single body to make thing easier. JP Sit widened roads for immediate relief with 70 Lakhs. Let hope you officials and system move at least now. But, heard again there is Cost exhalation.
11 months ago

Vinodh JP Sir,
Please look into the issue and see that the KPHB bridge work is completed asap. It is not only time we can save lot of fuel also. Recently we saw Jagan's party raising this issue and they also did a 1 day dharna near that bridge. Thanks to them atleast someone stood for that even though our goverment is just sleeping.
11 months ago

Yatheen This followed as the major Burning Issue: Hi-Tech City Flyover. Please check the updates on.

http://www.kukatpallynow.com/traffic-and-roads

and https://www.facebook.com/letsgetitdone
about 1 year ago

Subash Thanks Yatheen for quick response and updates. I along with several daily commuters on this road are eagerly waiting for this bridge to be ready at the earliest. Subash.
about 1 year ago

Yatheen Latest Update on ROB in TheHindu news

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2900990.ece
about 1 year ago

Yatheen Please follow this issue in facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/letsgetitdone

The problem is, if the initial plan is implemented, the fly over touches the electric cables OR there will be no sufficient clearance b/w the cable and fly over. SO rly officials have objected it.

As per the new proposal,... two addl pillars(piers) will be laid on both sides of the track which will suddenly increase the height of the fly over.
After these two pillars are laid, a pier would be laid between the two tracks to join both the sides.
As of now, the process of laying two pierson both sides of the track is in progress... So, if work starts now, without any delay.... in another 3 mnths it must be ready. Interesting part is, everyday atleast one labourer will work on something :-) and it is never kept idle.

Thanks to JP, atleast the CC road that passes underneath the railway station is widened.

about 1 year ago

GanjamKalyan Agree with Gopi, Police efforts are commendable. Kavita's effort of calling up police is equally commendable though.
over 2 years ago

srinivas gud work, kukatpally police... hatsoff
over 2 years ago

Kavita Kukapally Police station Numbers are------
27853959/56/52

DSP-9490617127/23
over 2 years ago

Gopi This is really commendable, especially the promptness with which the police acted. Can you please publish the phone number of the police in this report, it will be useful for others. -- thanks, gopi
over 2 years ago