there was a time when the entire city boasted beautiful heritage structures that housed everything from offices hospitals and homes over time they have made way for newer structures and the latest to fall victim to development is the government veterinary hospital on queens road at a cost of 165 crore the bbmp plans to erect a swanky multispecialty hospital in its place but the one question that many are asking is whythe problem is threefoldfounding member of citizens for bengaluru and cxo priyachetty rajagopal who was part of a peaceful protest at the premises against the demolition on sunday says that the issue is threefold heritage structures being demolished centuriesold trees being felled and the harm that will result from discontinuing the abc programme animal birth control even temporarily this has been in the works for two years but no one knew about it there are britishstyle barracks on the campus that have already been dismantled to make way for a multistorey veterinary hospital why do you even need it when there is a sprawling government veterinary hospital in hebbal that is not even four kilometres away the queens road campus is a general lung space in the city which is set to be destroyed she says priya adds there are trees that existed even before independence the trunk of the central mango tree is so thick that it takes nine people to just hug it and now they want to uproot it how can you take away history putting the abc programme on hold is like waiting for a kerala to happen here in 2016 two people died and many others were injured in stray dog attacks in that state after the government failed to control the population of stray dogsmove out but continue the abc programmebengaluru needs nine centres for the abc programme but there are only two cupa and sarvodaya sevabhavi samstha the latter occupies a part of the queens road campus this centre is vital for controlling the population of stray dogs in central and east bengaluru which it manages to do without basic requirements like kennels so it came as a surprise when it was claimed that the ngo was refusing to vacate the premises and relocate when asked about this sarvodaya founder trustee vinay morey said the bbmp is my boss and they have not asked me to move this is not my premises and i am not even paying rent so why will i not agree to move i have only been given oral instructions to vacate the premises but not discontinue the abc programme how can i do that this hospital doesnt come even in the way of their construction since its in the corner of the campus even if i want to leave there is no place in bengaluru east where the abc programme can be undertakenvinay was asked by a animal husbandry department official to consider moving to a facility in ulsoor which he says even