Residents of Bengaluru are reporting instances of water seeping into their homes, offices, and shopping centers amid intense rains and an orange alert.
Water leaks into residences was a complaint received by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the municipal corporation in charge of the city's administration and civic infrastructure, from 142 different sites on October 15.
Office workers simultaneously posted pictures of flooding on social media from a number of locations, including Manyata Tech Park on the Outer Ring Road. Others posted pictures of the entrance to Yelahanka's Phoenix Mall of Asia and a parking lot that was flooded.
According to information provided by real estate firm Vestian, the 300-acre Manyata Tech Park is a significant IT hotspot in North Bengaluru. The typical commercial rent there right now is between ₹93 and 97 per square foot. The metric has grown annually by 7-8%.
Regarding this Embassy REIT says, “Through the development of a new culvert, a critical flood mitigation measure to manage the water flow, along with annual desilting and raising the nallah embankment, strategic positioning of external stormwater sumps, and the deployment of high-capacity dewatering systems that cleared road floodwaters within 2-4 hours, our on-ground teams ensured business continuity".
Similarly, a resident of Nagawara, Varna Prakash penned on Instagram post: “My house became a lake.” She, however, told HT.com that the waterlogging cleared within an hour.
"We have witnessed water logging issues for residents only when there are continuous rains because the next area is all built on a lake bed, and because of metro construction and poor drainage systems the water overflows,” she said.
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