The Green Bill !!!!!!!!!!

Dear Bangalorians,

This how the story starts .....

Think of one of the Sunny day in Summer ...... you are on your bike to meet some one important ... its around 1 PM . You are coming from Vijayanagar to Malleshwaram and got stuck near Majestic .... God .... its really hot , Its so hot that you are cursing yourself for wearing a black trouser and your skin is burning .... no breeze .... helmet has turned itself into pressure cooker ..... sweating every inch ..... Then the regular traffic Jam of Bangalore ..... shirt stuck to your skin .... the body trying hard to cool you off by sweating nonstop ...... traffic not moving an inch.

You are at the mercy of the crewel Sun ...... Then you scream HELL is where you are now...... I hate Bangalore ..... and these traffic Jams.....

Then the traffic slowly moves and you enter Sampige road .... WOW .... how do you feel....

One cant explain .... the Sampige road full of thick trees from each side of the road .... looks as if joined each others hand to give you that dark, thick cool shade .... you remove your helmet glass and there enters the fresh breeze soaked from each leaves of the trees .... body cools off the flow of this breeze on your sweaty skin gives you the AC effect .... sweat dries up .... ahh what a shade.... you cheer out Heaven ...... Thank god these trees are here ......

Well .... I think this story goes with most of us Bangalorians. We all have had our share of summer heat in the never ending traffics Jams of Bangalore.

Now Imagine the same story another day after couple of months ..... the same scene ... hot sunny day .... the traffic jam ..... the sweat ..... this time you are not screaming HELL .... you already know you will enter the Sampige road and cool you off ....

Traffic moves.... you enter the Sampige road .... the Sun is still burning your skin .... what the hell.....

You lift your head ..... then you scream "NOOOOOOOO" the trees are all gone ... only the dead bodies of the trees some cut from the head , some from the legs.... hands .... all scattered .....

You scream again ..... curse the people who have done it ..... your blood boils along with your body ..... then the traffic moves .... you continue in the road cross sampige road ... you still are cursing the government / BBMP every one who is responsible in killing these trees...... then you enter IISC campus ..... the trees there give the shade again and slowly your comes down.

You start thinking about the important meeting of yours .....

Next time you avoid the sampige road ..... and come by navarang ........

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This was every Bangalorian's story .... you can replace "You" with your name and "Sampige road" by any other road of Bangalore like "Adugodi road", Sankey road", "100 ft road", "Chord Road" ....

Because soon all these trees on the roads shall be killed in the name of developement. I had always thought of doing something about this but didn't know what .... and like any Bangalorian I was Really Busy in earning my lively hood.

Then I joined an education which altered my way of thinking and living life. It is LandMark education. I did the course and currently doing my final level of what we call Curriculum for life.

During this I really thought of doing something about it ..... I had seen the trees being cut in Audogodi road .... Trees which were more than 50 to 60 years old...... Never asked any favour from US, they found their own food, water ...... and then gave us shade, reduced noise, dust ......

But We Humans are so selfish and mean that we killed them in the name of development.

If you cant produce a full grown tree overnight then No one has a right to slaughter trees overnight ... not any Government or any one.....

With all the resistance from the Environmental activists and NGO's, citizens still the killing of these road side trees is ON ....... As recently seen in Sankey road ... the authorities were quiet till all the people resisting went home and slept, by the time people woke up The Trees were Killed, Hanged.... butcherd.

I feel unless there is a stringent Law very specific to Road Side Trees we cant fight the so called "Developement" menace.

"The Green Bill" is a community project which shall draft a specific law for road side trees and shall not only restrict the cutting of trees but will make the process of getting a permit so stringent that any agency planning to cut a tree should drop the idea and go for an alternate way.

I would request all YOU people to come out with your support and join my Community.

This project is in initial stages and I shall request all my Bangalore friends to join my community and help me to draft this Bill.

The Sole Intention is to Get a "Road Side Tree Law" for Bangalore.

You can mail me somu.sk@gmail.com

"The Green Bill"