Play ground stinks, RSS Shakha shrinks

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Filled with Sewage and rain water, a play ground in Rajajinagar 5th Block, makes a mockery of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Clean India Mission’. Photo by ENARADA.COM
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ENARADA, Bangalore, October 15, 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears on TV, Radio, Cinema Halls and social media multiple times a day, appealing support for his clean India vision – ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’ but civic agencies are not in a mood to listen. A reality check by Enarada.com, revealed a callous attitude by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Shakha (A daily gathering of RSS activists for one hour) is being disrupted in Bangalore for a strange reason – Stinking Play Ground.

The play ground in Rajajinagar 5th Block, adjacent to Rajajinagar Parents’ Education Society, has become a pool of sewage water, leaving  little place to conduct shakha.

At a normal shaka, a saffron flag (Bhagwa Dhwaj) flutters in the midst of an open playground. Youths and boys of all ages engage in varieties of indigenous games including Kabaddi, and KoKo. Physical fitness training programs such as Syryanamaskara and ‘Danda’ wielding skills are practiced.

A freedom fighter who devoted his entire life to the service of motherland, Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, founded RSS at Nagpur in 1925. There are Shakhas in approximately 50,000 villages and towns of India. The Shakha runs  in this ground is known as ‘Vittal Prabhat’ Shakha.

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Disappointed for not having a clear ground space to perform physical exercise and games, Mukya Shikhak of RSS, looks at the worst condition of the Play Ground. Photo by ENARADA.COM
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Today, when Enarada.com team visited the ground, there was  only three RSS activists gathered in Shakha and there was no saffron flag. Entire shakha got over in 5 minutes, as there was no place to play game or indulging in physical activities. They recited the prayer “Namaste Sada Vatsale Matrubhoome” (My salutation to you, loving Motherland), facing a small place in the North-east part of the  ground where symbol ‘OM’ was written with a small stick and dispersed after heart-felt utterance of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai.”

“Due to worsening condition of play ground, the strength in the Shakha is declining.  Normally, 20 -25 people will attend the Shakha and during special occasions the number may increase to 100” said, Harshavardan (22) who is a Mukya Shikshak of the shakha.

He said, sewage water enters play ground as sewage lines in the locality are choked and  overflows during heavy downpour.

He lamented that entire southern part of the play ground has turned into junk with stagnated sewage water and  deters people to enter the ground. He mentioned that many visitors to the ground, joined for prarthana in the shakha, and no body is entering the ground due to imperfect atmosphere.   “It may takes 8- 10 days to evaporate but  the same problem occurs when it rains again,” Harshavardan said.

Very few enterprising youth who comes here to play cricket has to share a small portion of ground in the northern side and has to carefully avoid hitting the ball towards southern portion.

Speaking to Enarada.com, Hari Prasad, Malleshwaram Bhaga Vasathi Karya Pramukh of RSS, who supervise this Shakha said, RSS volunteers regularly clean the ground as BBMP has completely neglected the ground. “As a social service initiative, We clean the ground once a week but the sewage problem has to be addressed by BBMP,” said, Hari prasad.

Cheluvaraya, resident of 6th Block Rajajinagar and  a national  level volleyball coach was sitting with a depression face, at a corner of the ground. He  had cancelled his coaching classes due to worsening  condition of the play ground. “This is the only play ground available in the radius of 4 kms, apart from a small ground next to Dina Thanthi news paper office and a crowded ramamandir grounds. In this condition, how can I train my students?” Cheluva, asked.

When asked the sweeper from BBMP who was cleaning the road near the ground, about waste materials strewn all over the ground, he said he has got an instruction to clean the roads but not the Ground. He politely asked us to complain to his ‘Mesthri'(contractor) Raju, about clearing waste materials inside the ground.

Hope, the BBMP will open its eyes for the reality and  takes part in ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’, with a clean heart.

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As filth covers Play ground, few Youths playing cricket and RSS Swayamsevaks, shares a small space available. Photo by ENARADA.COM
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