[Urbanstudy] Protest against fundamental encroachment of Our Right to Access all Public Commons

[Bhargavi S.]

NO ENTRY FOR POOR AND COMMON PEOPLE
TO CUBBON PARK AND LALBAGH 

(ENTRY RESTRICTED TO ID CARD HOLDING
ELITES ONLY)



The Government of Karnataka plans to
make ID cards mandatory to enter Cubbon Park and Lalbagh, and that at a cost of
Rs 200/person. This is the beginning of the state’s encroachment of people’s
right to freely access public spaces. All sorts of reasons are being flung at
the public, including security concerns, morality and misuse of parks by
“unnecessary elements”.  

The manner in which the policy is
formulated encourages the particular exclusion of access rights of the urban
poor (especially from minorities), street and working children, elderly people, transgenders , migrant
workers, labourers, street vendors, drivers of autorickshaws and taxis,
differently abled, families with children, etc. The idea of having to carry an
ID merely to access these two parks, fundamentally distances them from their
unfettered and constitutionally protected Right to Use Public Spaces. This
policy also promotes discriminatory access to public spaces as it privileges
'regular walkers' and thus negates the very concept of parks as public
commons.  Simply stated this draconian
policy encroaches our very fundamental Right to Live a Healthy Life based on
dignified and unfettered access to public spaces.

Join the Protest against this
fundamental encroachment of Our Right to Access all Public Commons

COME JOIN THIS JUST PROTEST WITH FAMILIES,
COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS, NEIGHBOURS

Queen’s Statue, Cubbon park, Monday, 30th
November, 4.00 pm

Protest
initiated by Environment Support Group, CIEDS, Vimochana, Dalit Sangharsh
Samiti - (Bangalore Dist.), Sanmathi, Alternative Law Forum and Sangama

For
more details contact: Environment Support Group,1572, Outer Ring Road, Banshankari 2nd
stage, Bangalore-560070 Tel:-91-80-26713559-60 Email:esg at esgindia.org,  bhargavi at esgindia.org Website:  www.esgindia.org 


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