Footpath encroachments
- Hyderabad
Hitech City has Hyderabad’s best footpaths, but not everywhere
Hyderabad: Outside the Gachibowli stretch that houses Infosys, TCS, Indian School of Business (ISB) and Wipro, the footpath is wide enough for three people to walk side by side. It is paved in…
- Hyderabad
Tiles, trash, transformers: Secunderabad’s broken footpaths
Hyderabad: Secunderabad was once built with wide, orderly roads – a legacy of its military-planned past. Walk through it today and that order is gone. Footpaths across the city’s main roads and neighbourhoods…
- Hyderabad
The vanishing footpaths of Mehdipatnam, Tolichowki and beyond
Hyderabad: Under the Shaikpet flyover, Mohammed sells vegetables from a stall that stands where a footpath should be. Asked about the footpath, he looked puzzled. “Woh kya hota hai? (what is that?)” he…
- Hyderabad
From Nampally to Jubilee Hills, footpaths exist on paper only
Hyderabad: From Lakdi-ka-Pul to Jubilee Hills, from Nampally’s railway crowds to Abids’ shopping lanes, the story on Hyderabad’s footpaths is the same: built in patches, blocked in most and abandoned by evening. Pedestrians…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad’s Old City, where footpaths are an afterthought
Hyderabad: In Hyderabad’s Old City, walking on a footpath is an afterthought. People have gotten used to being in a sort of “survival mode” when on the road, walking through speeding traffic, trash…
- Hyderabad
Right to walk on footpaths: Hyderabad isn’t a city for pedestrians
Hyderabad: To walk on a footpath in Hyderabad is like running an obstacle course. You step on a pavement with broken tiles, avoid garbage and public urination on one side, find a…
- Bangalore
Bengaluru encroachment: Repeat offenders to face fines, FIRs
Bengaluru: Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) Minister Krishna Byre Gowda has directed civic authorities to take strict action against street vendors who return to footpaths after encroachments have been cleared. He instructed officials…
- India
SC seeks states, UTs’ response on encroachment-free footpaths
New Delhi: The existence of footpaths is an integral part of human life, the Supreme Court said on Monday, August 24, while directing all states and Union Territories to respond on the…
- Bangalore
Nearly 500 km of Bengaluru footpaths cleared of encroachments
Bengaluru: The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has accelerated its footpath encroachment removal campaign, clearing nearly 500 km of pedestrian pathways across the city between July 1 and July 10. Official figures show…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad’s DLF food street razed down amid encroachment drive
Hyderabad: In a major anti-encroachment drive on Friday, July 10, the Cyberabad Municipal Corporation cleared obstructions from 22.28 km of footpaths, including 48 encroachments from the DLF area in Gachibowli that was…
- Bangalore
136 pedestrians killed, 664 hurt between Jan, June in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Bengaluru’s roads continue to pose significant dangers for pedestrians, with alarming accident statistics showing that 136 people on foot have died and 664 others have been injured in road crashes between…
- Hyderabad
Footpath encroachment removal drive held across Cyberabad
Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation on Saturday, July 4, conducted an anti-encroachment drive across the three zones of the district. In the Serligampally Zone, the drive was conducted at the Botanical Garden…
- Hyderabad
Municipality clears 30 km of footpath encroachments in Cyberabad
Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation on Saturday, June 27, removed 506 encroachments like unauthorised food stalls, vendors, and temporary structures from 30.29 km of footpaths. In Serilingampally zone, covering Narsingi, Patancheru, Ameenpur, Miyapur…
- Hyderabad
Hundreds of footpath encroachments removed in Hyderabad to ease traffic
Hyderabad: In a major drive to reclaim pedestrian spaces, hundreds of footpath encroachments in Hyderabad have been cleared since December last year. The action was taken as part of Operation ROPE (Removal…
- Hyderabad
HYDRA to clear commercial outlets from footpaths
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRA) will soon initiate a special drive to clear permanent commercial outlets occupying footpaths along major and colony roads. The decision was taken…
