Bangalore: Where's the water, the promised jobs, the good roads? Villagers living around the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) gave vent to their fury against the aerodrome's expansion plans. They demanded to know what the airport has done for them in the past five years at a public hearing conducted by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB).
The GVK group, which built the airport, explained its expansion plans while Bangalore Rural district deputy commissioner V Shankar chaired the hearing.
"Other than distributing some hundred textbooks to schoolchildren and conducting eye check-up camps, what have you as a profitable company done for the public in neighbouring villages in the past five years? We are facing drinking water crisis, bad roads and connectivity to the highway and poor sanitation in the absence of public toilets. If you are spending 2% of your profits under the head of corporate social responsibility, why is there no improvement in the vicinity of the airport?" A Chandrashekar, president of Anneshwara gram panchayat, asked the BIAL.
30/08/13 Times of India
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The GVK group, which built the airport, explained its expansion plans while Bangalore Rural district deputy commissioner V Shankar chaired the hearing.
"Other than distributing some hundred textbooks to schoolchildren and conducting eye check-up camps, what have you as a profitable company done for the public in neighbouring villages in the past five years? We are facing drinking water crisis, bad roads and connectivity to the highway and poor sanitation in the absence of public toilets. If you are spending 2% of your profits under the head of corporate social responsibility, why is there no improvement in the vicinity of the airport?" A Chandrashekar, president of Anneshwara gram panchayat, asked the BIAL.
30/08/13 Times of India
