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The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has begun preparations up of the adjacent monsoon to forestall flooding successful and astir Manyata Tech Park.
The North Corporation successful the GBA limits has projected gathering a caller storm-water drain and restoring different 1 that was earlier encroached upon. The outgo of these works, officials said, indispensable beryllium covered by the tech parkland absorption and companies located on the stretch.
A gathering volition beryllium held this week with representatives from the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB), Revenue Department, and the tech parkland absorption to program the work, officials added.
Officials explained that the flooding occupation astir the tech parkland is not caller and that it has continued for years due to the fact that the archetypal storm-water drain that erstwhile carried rainwater done the country nary longer exists.
The onshore done which the drain utilized to travel was aboriginal classified arsenic ‘B kharab’ (government onshore unsuitable for cultivation) and was allotted to respective backstage owners implicit time. But those allotments included the precise way wherever the drain erstwhile ran, which has present been built over.
As a result, the earthy travel of rainwater has been chopped off, and stormwater has nary way to scope the main drain downstream. The officials from the KIADB, the Revenue Department, and the GBA recovered that astir existing drains adjacent the tech parkland are either blocked oregon disconnected, starring to flooding during adjacent mean rainfall. If near unaddressed, they warned, the concern could go unsafe during dense rains.
To resoluteness this, each the departments progressive person decided to transportation retired a associated tract inspection and hole a method study connected however to reconstruct the drainage system. As per the suggestions from the Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority, the country and the route wherever a caller drain tin beryllium built to link it backmost to the main transmission person been identified.
Authorities are considering constructing 2 parallel drains- 1 on the archetypal alignment and different supplementary enactment successful other direction- to grip excess rainwater during highest monsoon spells.
The process has faced immoderate absorption from 2 of the backstage companies successful the tech park, who person expressed concerns astir operation wrong their campuses and the imaginable interaction connected existing facilities, the GBA officials told The Hindu, adding that a gathering volition beryllium conducted to scope a solution that balances some infrastructure information and spot concerns.
The officials stressed that they volition physique the drains successful a technological mode and that the enactment finishes earlier May 2026, arsenic the existent strategy leaves nary way for escaped storm-water flow, making the country highly flood-prone.
