THE RAIN AND THE DRAINAGE SYSTEM

How can anyone forget the rain that lashed Mumbai and halted everything to a standstill and has broken all records. This became evident as reports came in of deaths and drowning, several landslips and of dangerously high water levels in rivers

Large parts of Mumbai were stranded on railway platforms, roads and offices, at the airport and even in schools and colleges. The city went without electricity and telephone. While the local trains pause in the middle, all the major roads were jammed with vehicles.
We cannot just simply blame the rain for all the damages. The drainage system of Mumbai had played equal role in that.

The same is the situation in Bangalore. Even if it rains for 2hrs in the city, it becomes overloaded with traffic. Every road and street will be fully packed with vehicles. And it becomes worse during peak times. The garden city becomes a night mare. Traffic all over the city simply pauses. Motorists are too scared to move - they could not see where the roads ended and the drains began.

On your way to home you will definitely stuck in traffic jam and mostly because of flood. In 2005, Madiwala was the worst area where the flood water demolished couple of boundary walls on series of cars parked on the otherside of the wall and entered into basement parking leading to severe losses to car owners.

While poor drainage system plays a major role, its the encroachers who are also responsible for blocking the drainage.

In last one year government has done well to improve the road condition but the fact is that without proper drainage the roads will not survive longer. All the money which has been spent till date on infrastructure will go in waste. While government putting his effort on improving Bangalore’s infrastructure, its people of Bangalore who can also contribute to their cities improvement. Ofcourse, nothing can be done in one day but we still expect people to be more responsible and government to take a step ahead on improving the drainage system.