BBMP Report Indicts IT Majors in Manyata for Floods

Fixing the Flood

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bengaluru

A BBMP report delving into the causes of floods at Manyata Tech Park and adjoining areas in the recent past has indicted some of the major IT corporations in the locality.

The report by Munish Moudgil, Principal Secretary to Revenue Department and Special Commissioner, BBMP, has listed out a series of violations such as interruptions to drain water flow, disruption of rainfall catchment area in Nagavara, blocking of natural percolation, as reasons for the flooding.

The report recommends that those private companies whose constructions have obstructed the natural flow of rainwater give land free of cost and fund the construction of a drain to avoid future flooding of Manyata Tech Park and the adjoining areas in the Outer Ring Road in Hebbal.