Hotel flooded as VVWW reservoir overflows in Yadavagiri

A edifice connected Vivekananda Road successful Yadavagiri suffered harm aboriginal greeting connected February 3 aft a ground-level reservoir of the Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW) — which supplies drinking h2o to Mysuru metropolis connected behalf of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) — overflowed and flooded the property.

Hotel unit were caught disconnected defender arsenic h2o abruptly entered the premises, inundating the basement and the crushed floor. The compound partition collapsed arsenic h2o gushed into the property, damaging portions of the basement and furniture.

According to edifice staff, h2o entered the reception country astir 4 a.m., soon flooding the full floor, including the restaurant. Staff initially struggled to recognize the root of the h2o entering the premises.

The edifice in-charge said a memorandum had been submitted to the MCC commissioner seeking restoration of the harm caused to the compound partition and different areas. MCC authorities person reportedly assured that the contented would beryllium looked into and repair works would beryllium taken up from February 4. Engineers from VVWW visited the edifice and assessed the damage.

Residents, activists and edifice unit said an evident hold successful closing the reservoir valve led to h2o overflowing and gushing onto the edifice premises similar a tiny stream. Had the valve been unopen connected time, the incidental could person been avoided. Eventually, edifice unit closed the valve to forestall further damage, it is learnt.

Act of negligence?

Expressing daze astatine the incident, activistic and Mysore Grahakara Parishat subordinate Dr Bhamy V. Shenoy, besides a nonmigratory of Yadavagiri, said helium visited Hotel Komfort Suites aft learning astir the flooding and recovered unit clearing h2o and cleaning the premises. He termed the incidental an enactment of negligence connected the portion of VVWW.

The MGP and the Yadavagiri Residents Association (YRA) person raised the contented with elder MCC officials. “The question is whether the edifice volition beryllium compensated for the losses suffered owed to the responsibility of the VVWW. Will the MCC instrumentality work and carnivore the losses?” Dr. Shenoy asked.

Meanwhile, Dr. Shenoy reiterated the long-standing request to instrumentality VVWW retired of MCC power and found it arsenic an autonomous body. “MGP has been demanding this betterment for implicit 25 years. The latest incidental erstwhile again highlights the request for accountability and structural change,” helium said.