Congested Bengaluru going China way; green cover reduced

Bengaluru | Tuesday | 28th January, 2020

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Bosky Khanna ByExpress News ServiceBENGALURU: Best to live away from Bengaluru South, Whitefield, Mahadevapura zone and Peenya, the most congested parts of Bengaluru. According to IISc report ‘Micro-level analyses of environmentally disastrous urbanisation in Bengaluru’, released on Monday, the city is choking and going the China way. Mumbai, despite its fast-paced growth rate, continues to have 32-35 per cent green cover, but Bengaluru has only 5 per cent now. While development in West Bengaluru is slowly picking up pace, North Bengaluru (areas towards KIA), despite having no ground water, is moving the Whitefield way,” he said. “Instead of development, government working and planning needs to be divided,” he added..