Bengaluru: Campus from one of Bengaluru’s largest technology hub – Manata Tech Park near Hebbal – flooded after rain on Sunday night, forcing employees to travel to the office on Monday morning to return home.
With the streets under three-four feet, the Tech Park campus, located on the shores of Lake Nagawara in Outer Ring Road, resembles a canal grille.
Videos and pictures of waterlogging into viral on social media platforms.
When some administrative staff and cleaning went to Tech Park in the dawn gap to go about their assignments, they were surprised to see water everywhere.
“There is no way; it’s like a rivulet network.
Fortunately, there is no hole inside and we can require the way through water safely.
But the condition is terrible,” said a cleaning staff who was the first person to enter the location at 6:30 in the morning.
Some roads are under three feet of water at night.
“This is the second time something like this happened, but this is the first time the water level does not reduce after we try to drain it,” he added.
Other security staff on the night assignment said: “At around 3.30 in the morning, the water surface on the road began to rise.
Initially, the water was stagnant as on the porch of the house, but then continued to increase.” “I called my fellow security guard and we cleaned the water channel with a stick To allow running water.
But it continues to flow again.
In a two-hour range, the streets have become rivulet in the Spate, “he explained.
Shilpa (Name changed), Techie in a private company in Mansata, was on his way to the office when he received a call from his friends who were trapped on campus.
They asked him to return.
“I live in Hebbb and manion just 3.5 kilometers for me.
But after I reached halfway, my colleagues asked me to return to say the place was flooded,” he told Toi.
Shilpa, however, continues to drive and witness the first situation.
“I just saw the flow of muddy water, there was no way.
I drove in the park to help some of my friends trapped and released it safely.” Ram Prasad, founder of the lake friend, said, “This park was built on Hebbal water storm water, and This will definitely happen.
The planned outlet is needed, and there is no provision for the same thing.
“Encroachment in SWD; We should not be blamed: BBMP “about a few years ago, the BBMP complained about Manata Tech Park which penetrated open disposal, diverting natural flows, and building illegal bridges on it.
We should not be blamed, considering that it is encroachment on the stormwater sewer.
There will be every time heavy rain, “said a senior BBMP official.