Shveta Mathur
An interesting story revolves around the name of Bangalore city. A gracious king named it after the good deed done to him by an old woman when he was out hunting. The old woman was poor and had nothing else to offer but boiled beans. But the king was so pleased with her hospitality that he named the entire city as bele-benda-kalu-ooru, which in the local language Kannada means, the place of boiled beans. The historical evidence of the name “Bengalooru” can be found in a 9th century inscription found in a temple in the village of Begur. But it was Kempe Gowda who first set the limits of the city of Bangalore.Kempe Gowda’s city of Bengalooru popularly now known as Bangalore extended to the four watchtowers established by him way back in the 1537. The Eicher city Map of Bangalore captures it all!
However today the city of Banagalore has a lot more to offer than the four watchtowers of Kempe Gowda or the boiled beans of the kind old woman. Today Bangalore is the fifth largest and fastest growing metropolis and is known as the Garden city of India.
The Eicher Bangalore city map defines the modern limits of the city with the same level of detail as that exhibited in the Delhi and Chennai maps.
The map is a complete and comprehensive guide for any one new to the city of Bangalore. It provides 4 key-to-map pages with an exhaustive index spanning 38 categories that guides one through the rest of the 100 maps in the map book.
This map book has been presented in a notebook size for easier handling. It marks locations of various important landmarks, roads, cinema halls, hotels, restaurants and other important building. It also identifies important public amenities like birth registration offices, milk booths, taxi stands, hospitals and dharamshalas that make it extremely useful even for permanent residents of the city. All these locations are clearly identifiable on the 500mtre grid of each map due to good printing quality as well as distinct and easy to understand symbols and colours. The commercial areas of Chikpete, Nagartapete, Sampangiram Nagar and ashok Nagar have been dealt with at 250 grids. The folded route planner provided with each copy of the Map book can be a handy piece of information for the motorist and people familiar with the city.
The maps are prepared using satellite imagery from NRSA (National Remote Sensing Agency). Priced at Rs. 200 the Bangalore city map caters to all user groups starting from daily commuters to tourists.
The map book provides a brief view of the important tourist places in and around Bangalore for the eager tourist with useful tips on how to use the map book. It is also now available at all leading bookstores.
Though the Eicher city map for Bangalore has taken care of the important keys like the main localities, Universities, Institutional buildings, government buildings, Hotels, Cinema halls etc it would have been more user friendly if it had included information on bus routes and timings because this information is very useful for a daily commuter as well as for a person new to the place.
The need for the bus route becomes more as Bangalore being a city with floating population from nearby places like Hubli, Dharwad etc.
* “Our Bangalore”
