residents to come together and form jkrwa although to keep things complicated there is also a dissenting group the bajajs assigned jkrwa the right to manage the roads while they supplied the lighting but enforcing order has been hard one lane has been narrowed so much by houses on both sides that it barely fits a twowheeler before says arora you could drive an ambassador throughin recent years jkrwa has stepped up when a private trust which owns the last empty plot in the enclave proposed to build a marriage hall the association scraped together enough money to challenge it in court the association has tried to demarcate parking a difficult issue with so many large new cars prithvi has really helped by posting their own guards to prevent people parking says association secretary babla even when there is a big occasion they make sure theres no congestionstill problems loom a fire a few years ago was an acute reminder of the lack of easy access to large parts of the property luckily they could bring one tender into the end of the main lane but it was scary says babla some apartment blocks may redevelop in the coming years raising the prospect of construction chaos and the influx of more peoplejanki kutirs future is as uncertain as its legal status yet residents hope it will remain a place where kids can play in the lanes there is nothing compelling us all to come together and yet we all have a strong sense of being janki kutir says almeida this sentiment perhaps reflects the wider city by the sea developed piecemeal plagued by problems and yet somehow a place where people want to live