Bengaluru on Yellow Alert: Govt declares holiday for schools, advises IT employees to work from home tomorrow

To marque up for the mislaid teaching clip owed to this precautionary holiday, the authorities has directed schools to behaviour other classes connected Saturday afternoons oregon Sundays. The territory commissioner besides advised parents, principals, and students to debar waterlogged areas.

The determination to state a nationalist vacation connected October 21 faced backlash from parents, particularly since the rains had stopped by the clip children had already gone to school.

D. Shashikumar, wide caput of the Associated Managements of Schools successful Karnataka (KAMS), expressed dissatisfaction implicit the predominant holidays and their imaginable interaction connected learning. “The authorities should ideally permission the determination to state holidays to the discretion of respective schools and lawman directors of nationalist acquisition successful the zones. Rainfall has been scattered implicit the past fewer days, with large waterlogging reported successful lone a fewer areas. Given that galore holidays person already been granted this period owed to Dasara and the upcoming Deepavali festivals, it would beryllium prudent to assistance holidays lone to schools affected by waterlogging to guarantee that students’ learning successful different schools is not hindered,” helium said.

Advise to enactment from home

Meanwhile, the Department of IT-BT and Electronics, Government of Karnataka, has advised each IT-BT and backstage employees to enactment from home. In an advisory issued to each IT-BT and backstage companies, the authorities stated, “The India Meteorological Department (IMD) – Met Centre Bengaluru has issued a Yellow Warning for Bengaluru Urban, effectual from 1:30 PM IST connected October 22, 2024, to 8:30 AM IST connected October 23, 2024. This informing indicates perchance terrible upwind conditions owed to dense rainfall. In airy of the Yellow Warning and anticipated atrocious weather, we prioritize the information and well-being of employees moving successful IT, BT, and backstage companies. To guarantee worker safety, we urge that IT, BT, and backstage companies successful Bengaluru licence their employees to enactment from location connected October 23, 2024.”

The Outer Ring Road (ORR), which stretches from Iblur to Marathahalli and is location to large tech parks, has suffered extended waterlogging owed to Monday night’s rains. Bengaluru postulation constabulary person advised commuters to debar the ORR betwixt Iblur and Marathahalli and to usage alternate routes, arsenic the agelong is wholly congested owed to waterlogging connected work roads.

The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre has predicted mean to dense rainfall successful Bengaluru until 8:30 AM connected October 23. According to the rainfall forecast, the Yelahanka and Bommanahalli zones are expected to person dense rainfall (between 64.5 mm and 115.5 mm), portion different areas volition acquisition mean rainfall.

A record

The downpour connected Monday evening acceptable a caller record for the highest regular rainfall astatine a upwind presumption successful Bengaluru, with 186.2 mm recorded astatine the IMD’s GKVK presumption successful the bluish portion of the city.

This is the highest regular rainfall registered by an IMD presumption successful the metropolis successful 27 years, surpassing the erstwhile grounds of 178.9 mm connected October 1, 1997. The aggravated rainfall has caused aggregate lakes, including Yelahanka, Kogilu, and Kannur, to overflow, wreaking havoc connected the residents of North Bengaluru and disrupting mean life.