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Well Done! Keppel condo in Bangalore

LeMans2011

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This must be one of the most misleading title from yahoo. It is the lake that smells.. not the condo

A smelly problem is assailing unit buyers of a Keppel Land project in Bangalore.

Residents of 1,573-unit Elita Promenade, a collaboration between the Singapore developer and Puravankara Builders in the Indian city, are complaining about the stench coming from nearby Jaraganahalli-Sarakki lake.

They said the development’s sewage plant treatment plant isn’t working properly, and that a pipe built by the developers through their property delivers untreated sewage from a neighbouring condo into the lake, according to The Sunday Times (ST).

Keppel, when contacted by ST, said that the sewage plant is not malfunctioning and that it has complied with all regulations.

It also reportedly explained that it had to lay a pipe to stop neighbourhood sewage from going into the development towards the lake.

Under India’s environment laws, it is illegal to dump untreated sewage into a lake.

ST further reported that the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board said it gave no approval for Keppel to build the pipe.

Health, pollution, legal problems

Concerns have been raised over health issues and possible pollution in the lake.

According to news reports in India last year, Elita residents were worried that they may be held as the ones responsible in the event that anybody falls sick from the polluted lake water.

“How can the company pollute a lake? Will they dare to do this in their country [Singapore]?” Bangalore Mirror quoted a resident, Bharath Kedlaya, as saying.

“We don’t want to be a party to this. We have a sewage treatment plant in our apartment complex, but are facilitating someone else’s sewage into the lake.”

Residents also claimed that they were in the dark about the problems when they first moved in, and that even after alerting authorities to the problem, nothing had been done to improve the situation, Bangalore Mirror had reported.

Who should take responsibility?

Meanwhile, residents are tussling with Keppel on who should take responsibility for the issue.

One resident quoted by ST said Keppel wanted the unit owners to form an association to take charge of managing the property.

But residents have rejected the offer, claiming that the responsibility is not theirs to hold.

Keppel, however, is maintaining its stand. “We remain committed to the needs of the residents at Elita Promenade as well as ensuring that the development is maintained in the best possible manner,” said a Keppel spokesman to ST.
 
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Serve Keppel right.. But then again those Ah Nehs can't really blame Keppel for everything.. The whole country is thorougly shit to the core.. You can pump billions of dollars to improve India's infrastructure, but their unhygienic village bumpkin way of life will be very hard to eradicate..
 
Honestly who in his right mind would do this in that country. The civil administration is a disgrace. The only way to deal with them is to get them to do the work and deliver the product outside the country.
 
And the Ah Nehs here think that we are holding the pAP govt to such high stds.!
 
I remember years ago one Ang Moh magazine already highlighted Bangalore's infrastructure was not expanding fast enough to meet its city expansion. It has really become a shit problem now.
 
Eat less kali, your shit won't be so smelly
Want your shit smelly, eat more kali
 
the headline really catches and stinks to high heavens!
 
Keppel probably thinks any standard will do in India... even if they don't think that way the local partner probably advised them that.
Just pay the civil service some money and all approvals should come through nicely.
 
There's a documentary show by CNA about toilet in outskirts of India.
This guy travel all the way there only to realized that there is not enough toilet for their 2.6 millions of population.
All these ah neh merely shit anywhere from drains in their backyard, anywhere in their paddy field and even to rivers and lakes
where they do all the washing and bathing. I'm not sure where did they bath and drink the water from there as well.

I wonder what did their government did for them after all these years beside asking sillypore to take in all their people as FTs.
 
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