Bengaluru has the most beautiful weather, which became most people’s unpaid therapist. The cool breeze, cold weather and pretty sky is what makes people fall in love with Bengaluru.
Bengaluru is very well known for it’s high traffic and is also called as silicon city. But the recent heavy rain that lashed Bengaluru over the weekend has created chaos across the city. Even though rain is helping weather to keep it’s cool in this hot summer, heavy pre-monsoon have created fear in people’s heart. The unscheduled power cut due to heavy rain has also made netizens go crazy. Bengaluru environment is not set for heavy rains. If Bengalru witnesses rain for continuous ten minutes, whole city experiences floods. Rainy season is not welcome on Bengalueu as there’s no proper water channel system to flow.
Even with less rain, the drainage system gets overflowed with water. The unscientific structure of water channel system is also a cause for this big disasters.
On May 21, a girl named Bhanurekha, all of 23 years old, and software professional in Infosys lost her life after the car she was traveling in with her family got stuck in neck- deep water.
The alleged negligence of both the BBMP officials and the car driver has led to the death of techie’s life. Netizens have shown their anger on the negligence of BBMP officials and the car driver. The new elected Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also visited the victim’s family and announced Rs. 5 Lakh as compensation. The girl’s family has filed complaint against the BBMP officials.
After this incident, BBMP installed boom barrier. It is mostly installed at toll plazas. It will be operated by traffic police officers whenever the underpass floods.
Due to pre monsoon heavy rain, the big trees collapsed which also made it difficult for common people. Trees collapsed onto soaked roads, causing significant disruption in few parts of the city.
Bengaluru is well known for it’s high traffic, but due to heavy rain, collapsed trees led to heavy traffic.
As weather forecast announced that Bengaluru will witness heavy rain for few more days, the respective authorities should take precautionary methods to prevent the disaster the heavy rain is going to cause. Also citizens should be careful on rainy days, as we don’t know which situation will put our life at risk. Look at how the negligence of higher authorities has led to and become a cause for girl to lose her life.
Especially the youngsters who put their life at risk for the sake of enjoyment, it’s not worth it.
It’s not only the responsibility of higher authorities, it’s also the responsibility of every citizens to be careful during rainy season.