Why does this city instantly become water logged in 30 seconds of rain?
New to the city and it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Having lived through all major metros in the country, Bangalore feels like a Tier-2 town covered with Tier-1 wrapping paper.
Probably because they built buildings where lakes provided natural refuge to rain water bro.
There is a reason why it’s a non metro city.
Oddly erected buildings and overly inflated, be it rents or groceries.
Look around you. The local bodies responsible for it doesn't care about fixing the issue. They want to fill their pockets
This was land of lakes...if I'm not wrong when Kempegowda built this city in such a way that lakes were connected and built specifically to store water.
Now the lakes are filled and buildings are raised on it, when it rains water will ofc try try follow it's path and sometimes the drainage, rajakluves are not sufficient
Heard from people that various societies across Bangalore were constructed in this manner only. Empty out lakes, fill with soil and build concrete megapolis.
unpocoloco
Stealth
3 months ago
Sad to hear that🥺
GrapevineEnthu
Stealth
3 months ago
"tier 2 town with tier 1 wrapping paper" - couldn't have been more accurate with this description
I recently moved to bangalore on 1st June and literally observed the same. Almost every major street gets flooded in like 5min.
The lakes that acted as natural drains were filled to build IT companies like walmart so you can have a salary. You're welcome.
Urbanization happened at places where there were forests and lakes. Naturally water should flow to these places and hence there's no where to go, it gets ligged due to bad drainage systems, bad handling by BBMP, encroachments, irresponsible diggings etc... many many reasons.
Have heard that BBMP is extremely corrupt with many plundering its resources for personal gain. Is that true?
A lot of people feel the same including me. I don't know anyone personally from BBMP so unsure of internal politics.
One simple example which every bangalore commuter would acknowledge is, some contractor will lay a road (be it good or badly laid). Someone will dig it in few hours/days.
It should be the responsibility of the contractor ro lay the road because they have dug it for x reason. BBMP knows this and the contractor has taken money for that as well. But they still leave it. So roads will stay horrible until next election with dust allover. I am sure someone in BBMP would know this and simply ignore because they have been paid the bribe by someone.
Because of this, all dust is in eyes, lungs, mouth etc..
And bangaloreans are highest road tax payers in the country. Literally we buy our own diseases by paying tax and driving on roads.
Cant help and cant go anywhere because life is settled here.
They put all the drainage system money in chinnaswamy stadium that’s why 😂
Seamless
Stealth
3 months ago
uneven roads, drainage is poor.
Water logging is everywhere in India.
In Bangalore few areas are more affected by rainfall like bellandur others are pretty good.
Unplanned expansion to cater the ever-growing need without stopping for a consolidation.
The government, authorities and landowners all bypassed every common sense because the incoming money is too huge to refuse.
The thing is most of the Software companies are actually situated outside Bangalore. This Bangalore is basically a tier 3 village which became part of the tier 1 city overnight
Every year new set of people migrate to this city and keep asking the same question
Corruption of government bodies that were created to take care of the city as well as to improve the planning and infrastructure of the city that keeps expanding its boundaries every financial year.
They resented to giving out contracts to friends and family and orgs that only exist on papers, none of them barely made any improvements to the growing city, but rather, encroached local green zones, water bodies, shutoff slow flowing rivers to give way for industrial waste (famous story of Kengeri Mori) and many more.
As a native, my area does not have these water overflow or traffic issues because it was properly planned by people in the past who valued the city's natural hilly nature and marked only those areas that are geologically and scientifically fit for town planning. So, if you see any roads and areas that have water logging and other issues, you can safely assume that they were done unscientifically and purely with monetary intentions only.
Also, I do suggest you explore more areas that are close to your current office and find out which of them have existed from a long time now and have no such issues. If you find a place to stay in those areas, I highly suggest you move to those places and live a better life than becoming one of those people who always complain about such issues. (Although I understand their frustration, they should realise that their life and the quality of life they want to live, is in their control and only they can take the decisions that makes their life better rather than being a crybaby about it)
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