Monsoon readiness: Tushar Giri Nath issues instructions for flood-prone areas in Bengaluru

With pre-monsoon showers already making an aboriginal appearance, the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has begun ground-level propulsion to forestall a repetition of flooding successful the city’s astir susceptible pockets.

At Kendriya Vihar and Kogilu Junction successful Yelahanka, wherever flooding has been a recurring concern, officials said a semipermanent solution is nether mode done the operation of a 2.7-km-long, 35-metre-wide rajakaluve (primary storm-water drain), connecting a part of Yelahanka Lake to Jakkur Lake, on with 30-foot-wide work roads connected either side. While 1.5 km of the drain has already been completed, a impermanent earthy drain has been created on the remaining agelong to guarantee uninterrupted h2o travel this monsoon.