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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengaluru floods: Anatomy of a drainage system gone horribly wrong -Rasheed Kappan

Bengaluru floods: Anatomy of a drainage system gone horribly wrong -Rasheed Kappan

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published Published on Sep 13, 2022   modified Modified on Sep 14, 2022

-Newslaundry.com

The city is woefully ill-prepared, despite thousands of crores spent and warnings that went unheeded.

Last week, Bengaluru was battered by rains that were unprecedented in scale and floods that were disastrous in impact. While the rains have abated, thousands living on the periphery of the Bellandur-Varthur lakes in east Bengaluru are still gripped by fear, worried that deliberately narrowed drains, encroachment of wetlands, and state apathy could trigger another round of devastation.

For years, the Karnataka government and the city corporation, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, has held out a long-term fix for the recurring floods – remodelling the city’s stormwater drains. But 16 years after its launch, the project is nowhere near completion and, worse still, has a glaring design flaw that ironically aggravated the flooding this year.

Faulty drain redesign

Flood management experts have dubbed this remodelling as a project to help the land mafia.

Why? After their redesign, the drains have shrunk from about 60 feet to 18 feet along several flood-prone stretches dotted by fancy apartment complexes. This, as experts point out, clearly violates the National Green Tribunal’s guideline to maintain the physical integrity and buffer of the SWDs.

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Newslaundry.com, 13 September, 2022, https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/09/13/bengaluru-floods-anatomy-of-a-drainage-system-gone-horribly-wrong


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