Anjum Balraj has completed programmes offered by Landmark Education, including Landmark’s Self Expression and Leadership Programme. Therein Anjum created a project to get a large public garbage mess cleaned up in the National Games Village housing complex of Bangalore. Anjum caused state assembly representative Ramalinga Reddy to get involved, and the garbage was removed and engineers have arrived to prevent reoccurence of the problem.

The project resulted in a news story on the Jagran CityPlus Site.

MLA Visits Games Village Housing Complex

Months after his election to the State Assembly, MLA Ramalinga Reddy paid a visit to the National Games Village Housing Complex in Koramangala to see for himself how residents here have long been coping with plentiful civic problems.

Along with the MLA came officials from government agencies such as BBMP (Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike), BWSSB (Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board) and BESCOM (Bangalore Electricity Supply Company). Also present were the officials from Karnataka Housing Board, the government agency which built this mammoth residential complex in the run-up to national games a decade ago.

Residents, led by Anjum demanded the BBMP that it shifts the garbage dump from Nethravathi Block as that is posing a health threat.

The garbage heap came into being as labourers forgot to remove the silt that they had thrown erratically in an adjacent storm water drain. As a result it was blocked. The garbage heap has continued to emit foul smell and has turned out be a major cause of diseases for thousands of people residing in this sprawling residential complex. As heavy rains lashed the City recently, the heap became the focal point of debate between BBMP and residents.

Residents also explained how torturous have been their lives as they are living with open sewerage, garbage dump, erratic water supply, power shutdown, damaged roads and blinking streetlights.

Reddy promised to get the drain cleaned by the end of this month and assured the residents that he would chalk out a permanent solution over the months to come.

Reddy also said that he will see that adequate water is supplied to the residents. When residents blamed broken streetlights for rise in burglaries, the MLA promised to fix 250 streetlights within the next two months.

Reddy also assured that all roads will be repaired once the rainy season gets over. Another resident requested to start bus service from National Games Village Housing Complex to the new airport near Devanahalli.