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#Bengaluru is my home. Not born here, but this is where I studied, work, and wherein am raising my family. 52 year's unprecedented rains has created havoc in ill-constructed areas. But I find the mockery of Bangalore's misery today distasteful. #Nammabengaluru #bangalorefloods
We need better infrastructure, zonal planning, stoppage of illegal construction encroachments that have come up in the last 15-20 years. Old Bangalore is managing well because the planners were sensitive to the city's geography. The political instability and sudden IT boom
Created a permissive environment where builders and contractors simply started building with doing surveys. #ElectronicCity which was the first IT hub built does not face these flooding. That's a testament to good planning being part and parcel of expansion of cities. Greed is a
Being in the center of the #bangalorerains, I feel people r still unaware about ground realities:
- No water restoration in societies in Bellandur for 3-4 weeks. That means not just drinking water. No water in Bathrooms. Not a single drop.
- Electricity is there...
- No water restoration in societies in Bellandur for 3-4 weeks. That means not just drinking water. No water in Bathrooms. Not a single drop.
- Electricity is there...
...but on the verge of going out anytime.
- This is me sitting in Sterling society right opposite Ecospace, the water on the road is not going away since 30-40 hours. It will be 2 days by the evening. No action plan in visibility to solve this. I see govt has abandoned this area
- This is me sitting in Sterling society right opposite Ecospace, the water on the road is not going away since 30-40 hours. It will be 2 days by the evening. No action plan in visibility to solve this. I see govt has abandoned this area
- Societies with 2 level basement parking have cars fully submerged in water for more than 24 hours now. There is no sign of pumping out water because the source of water keeps filling the basement with more speed.
It looks like our cars are submerged in a lake for weeks...
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It looks like our cars are submerged in a lake for weeks...
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