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.
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
I recently moved to bangalore on 1st June and literally observed the same. Almost every major street gets flooded in like 5min.
"tier 2 town with tier 1 wrapping paper" - couldn't have been more accurate with this description
Look around you. The local bodies responsible for it doesn't care about fixing the issue. They want to fill their pockets
I am new but everyone seems out to get you
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.
The lakes that acted as natural drains were filled to build IT companies like walmart so you can have a salary. You're welcome.
On my way back from the office and it started thundering and drizzling. Got me real excited and I didn’t mind getting a little drenched on my bike.
But the excitement to see the first proper rains was quickly outdone by the horror of B...
Have you had similar water situation in the past? Always thought Bangalore as a lake city, but looks like most of them aren’t taken care of.
Ps: for those who’re not aware of the situation- https://x.com/vishalbhargava5/status/17646...
As somebody who was born and brought up here, I have been a witness to a lot of water issues. It is particularly bad ...
this makes me feel guilty while using bath tub everyday and having full water in my swimming pool, anyways I recycle ...
