Rains continue to lash Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Rains battered the city for the second consecutive day Tuesday inundating many areas and uprooting scores of trees. The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centrerecorded an average rainfall of about 7 cm in the city ending 5.30 AM. The area around Hebbal flyover that leads to Kempegowda International Airport here resembled a lake due to waterlogging. Motorists had a harrowing time wading through the stagnant water. Several areas especially Anekal, Bannerghatta Road and places around Madivala were flooded. Rains exposed the shoddy work at Okalipuram underpass, which started leaking. Manohar Narasimhamurthy, a resident said, there was waist-deep water at the underpass, which points to ‘flawed design’. The city faced the flooding due to encroachment of major storm water drains, he claimed. The storm water drainencroachment removal drive in south Bengaluru two yearsago did not yield any result as the encroachers werespared, Narasimhamurthy alleged. The drive was carried out as per theinstruction of then chief minister Siddaramaiah when theentire Electronic City was under deluge on July 30 in 2016. (PTI)