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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How Caste and Class Divisions Caused Bengaluru's Flooding -Leo F Saldanha

How Caste and Class Divisions Caused Bengaluru's Flooding -Leo F Saldanha

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published Published on Sep 15, 2022   modified Modified on Sep 19, 2022

-TheWire.in

The city needs granular administrative and planning responses to help identify the poor who are forced to live in flood prone areas out of sheer necessity. They cannot be evicted and thrown to the streets.

When I was a kid, I remember my home in Bengaluru flooding repeatedly, especially during the monsoons. 

This was strange as we were in Chamarajpet, a well-planned neighbourhood developed by the visionary Dewan Sheshadri Iyer, along with Malleshwarm and Basavanagudi neighbourhoods, to settle those who lived in the petes (trading and living zones combined) of the old fort town that Bengaluru was then as the bubonic plague had ravaged and decimated the population as the 19th century rolled into the 20th.  

In these new neighbourhoods, quarter acre plots were allotted to build houses – typically bungalows with gardens all about – along broad and well drained roads. These often led to schools, hospitals, libraries, playgrounds and parks. Every house was water secure with open wells and conservancies to remove waste – by those belonging to the repressed Dalit community, of course. Rainwater drained from these neighbourhoods into well maintained storm water drains which flowed into kaluves (canals) and ultimately emptied into irrigation tanks (now called lakes). These lakes had been built over centuries as water harvesting and flood impeding structures and were maintained healthily to supply water, mainly by nourishing ground water aquifers which fed open wells.    

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TheWire.in, 15 September, 2022, https://thewire.in/rights/bengaluru-flood-caste-class


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