Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw calls Bengaluru ‘garbage city’, shares vision of what it could have looked like
Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has sparked a discussion on Bengaluru’s urban planning after sharing a graphic contrasting the city’s current infrastructure with what it could have been if designed with more greenery. Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (PTI) Sharing the image on X, Mazumdar-Shaw wrote, “This is how we need to design & plan our roads that reflects our garden city. Unfortunately it’s now a garbage city with shrinking greenery,” The graphic compared 2 versions of an elevated road corridor. One side, titled “What we built,” showed a concrete-heavy stretch with captions claiming trees had been removed, footpaths and service roads eliminated and public amenities lost. The other, titled “What we could have built,” reimagined the same corridor with retained trees, cycling tracks, wider footpaths and street amenities like lighting, benches and bins. Take a look at the post below: (Also Read: ‘Come on startups. Where’s your innovation?’ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw challenges entrepreneurs on use of drones) What did social media say? The post quickly caught the attention of social media users, with many blaming poor …
