The Koremangala complication
A plan to recreate Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon waterway in Koramangala Valley has hit a hurdle near
KR Market
Majestic and KR Market, quietly flows a 1.8-km
drain which surfaces from KR Market, raising a stink as it traverses a path till it empties into the
Bellandur Lake via Koramangala. This 20-km drain, allowed to fester and become a dumping ground, is posing a challenge to the officials who have taken up the massive exercise to remodel the drain on the lines of South Korea’s Cheonggyecheon waterway. So dense is the locality above the 1.8-km stretch of the drain that the officials are unable to even send mechanical excavators to de-silt the drains by opening the concrete slab. It’s learnt that the civic body is cleaning the drain by taking the help of