Building collapse, closure of apartments, overflowing lakes and flooded roads: Rain wreaks havoc in India’s IT capital Bengaluru

On Monday evening, Bengaluru acceptable a caller grounds for the highest regular rainfall astatine a upwind presumption successful Bengaluru, with 186.2 mm recorded astatine the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) 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.

Traffic chaos

Following the overnight rainfall, the roads from greeting were flooded starring to chaos connected the streets. The Bengaluru postulation constabulary had to divert the postulation successful galore parts of the city. On Tuesday evening, pursuing dense rainfall, the authorities authorities announced a holiday at authorities and backstage schools successful Bengaluru connected Wednesday. The authorities besides issued advisories to each IT-BT companies successful Bengaluru to enactment from location connected Wednesday.

Meanwhile, an nether operation gathering successful Bengaluru collapsed wherever astir 20 workers were working. The gathering illness took spot successful the Anjanadri Layout successful northbound Bengaluru. The workers were wrong a six-storeyed under-construction building.

D Devaraj, DCP (east) informed the media that 1 idiosyncratic had died portion 14 of them were rescued and 5 radical are inactive missing.

NDRF boats to rescue trapped residents

Unusual scenes hogged the attraction arsenic the rescue squad led by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) had to evacuate residents of the Kendriya Vihar apartments analyzable utilizing boats. The apartment, majorly occupied by elder cardinal authorities employees, is located 14 km from the Yelahanka Air Force Base. This is the 2nd clip that h2o logging has been reported astatine this flat successful the past 1 week.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D K Shivakumar said, “We person besides ordered the closure of immoderate of the apartments for the adjacent 8 days. We are pumping retired h2o from flooded areas astatine 20 antithetic places successful the metropolis utilizing 20-25 HP pumps.”

Shivakumar added, “Nature can’t beryllium stopped. We person seen floods successful Dubai and contamination successful Delhi. Our teams are moving circular the timepiece and I americium personally monitoring the alleviation works. The southbound and occidental parts of the metropolis are astir affected. A water has breached successful Dasarahalli and 5 layouts are flooded successful Mahadevapura zone. We are trying to hole the issues.”

“I was besides stuck successful the rainfall connected Monday evening. On our mode backmost from Challakere to Bengaluru, we were stranded successful 2 feet of h2o adjacent Nelamangala. Chowdeshwari Nagar has received 150 mm of rain. Many places person received 300 per cent of excess rain. Officials person submitted a study regarding this. We person asked galore residents to evacuate their homes owed to flooding. Five State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and NDRF teams person been deployed,” helium added.

Weather predictions

IMD officials expect dense rainfall implicit the adjacent fewer days successful the confederate states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu amid what they called an “upper aerial cyclonic circulation” implicit Bay of Bengal.

A unreality burst-like information caused a downpour adjacent Yelahanka and Vidyaranyapura precocious connected Monday, causing large water-logging successful galore parts of the area. According to BBMP, the flooding had affected 1,030 houses successful the Yelahanka portion alone.

The bureau goers successful the IT tech corridor and different parts of the metropolis were seen stuck successful postulation for respective hours owed to roadworthy flooding. Several lakes, including the Allalsandra lake, breached starring to waterlogging successful residential areas and nationalist roads connected Tuesday.

The Manpho Convention Centre and the Manyata Tech Park premises besides witnessed waterlogging and the authorities property it to water onshore encroachment.

Political slugfest

Amid waterlogging, the BJP slammed Congress, blaming their alleged negligence that led to the concern successful Bengaluru. BJP person CT Ravi said, “Earlier, Bengaluru utilized to person thousands of ponds; Who looted it all? Who earned wealth from that? They are looting (us). Bengaluru, contempt being an planetary city, is successful specified a condition, who is responsible?”

Taking to X, JD(S) successful a station wrote “Welcome to Brand Bengaluru! Where a physically challenged pistillate falling into a pothole during dense rains is conscionable different time successful paradise. While@siddaramaiah&@DKShivakumarkeep patting themselves connected the backmost for their ‘visionary’ governance, the city’s crumbling infrastructure is doing each the talking. BBMP’s mastery successful turning roads into decease traps is unmatched. Bravo connected mounting caller standards of neglect and irresponsibility.”

BJP and JD(S) besides lashed retired astatine Shivakumar for not visiting the flood affected areas. In response, Shivakumar said that flood alleviation works were much important than his visit.

“Our officials person been progressive successful flood alleviation works for the past 48 hours. What is important close present is the alleviation work, not my visit,” helium said speaking to reporters astatine his Sadashivanagar residence.