Public Gardens, Lakes in towns and Town Halls for public gatherings are under control of Municipal Authorities.
In every Municipality, there are always some greedy counsellors, who want to handover some prime lands to some builders for developments of commercial complexes.
I saw Killing of a punlic garden in my town, in following way.
First water supply to Garden was discontinued. Then gardners were discharged.
In few months garden became a junk of fallen leaves from trees. People deserted garden and stopped coming there.
Then one day, Municipality, silently passed a resolution to hand over garden to a builder for commercial develipment.
This might have also happened in thousands of small towns, snall cities and small villages.
Similarly, Lakes and Town Halls were killed and lands were given to builders to develop housing societies.
There were some PIL judgements of Supreme Court saying that this can't be done.
But this did not prevent any Municipality or any builder. .
And the ordinary people really did not know that they had rights and they could have prevented such conversation of public land by filing a Representative Suit by any four persons in nearby Court.
When there are laws, but no education to people about their rights, laws can do little good
Haresh Raichura 1/10/16
