#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
Driver that often directs to disaster in the end. That's what has happened with the #Bellandur areas. Lake interlinking, overflow management, and drainage are crucial remedial steps. Let's hope civic work resumes after this downpour and there is infrastructure development.
When you are voting for corporation #BBMP elections please do see the steps that are taken in your areas to manage your life. Your votes matter. In the meantime don't mock this wonderful, beautiful city that has given us so much. Let's repay the debt by demanding accountability.
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