Daijiworld News Network – Mangalore (SS)

Mangalore, Jun 20: Yet another park will be converted to a community hall at Urwa Store here, thus reducing the number the few parks in the fastest growing city of the state.

When the residents noticed a backward community hall being constructed illegally on the land, Fredrick D’Souza, president, Udyavan Bachav Samiti Urwa Store, in a memorandum to the chief minister and deputy commissioner, demanded that the construction be stopped with immediate effect, and the park be restored with the land being regained from the Backward and Minority Department.

There was also a proposal for the land and the adjacent government quarters to be sold to Infosys, despite plans by the Mangalore City Corporation to restore the park.

Now that the residents have filed a public interest litigation in the High Court, the issue has dampened down the years.

The citizens here have just to be passive and witness the reduction of greener pastures while high-rise buildings and halls such as these increase in number almost each day!