Bengaluru Rains Highlights: IMD issues red alert for next 5 days, Tejasvi Surya faces backlash

India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for Bengaluru region for next five days.

E-commerce companies, especially their delivery boys, had a harrowing time to supply products to the customers when certain parts of Bengaluru was under deluge due to two days of heavy rains in parts of the city, PTI reported. The flooded areas such as parts of Sarjapura, Bellandur, Varthur, Whitefield and Outer Ring Road had become inaccessible due to water-logging. In view of the flood situation, these e-commerce companies had suspended their services for some time. An executive of a leading e-commerce company told PTI they had to suspend services in certain places as it was not possible for anyone to reach there.

The Indian Meteorological Department has predicted more rainfall in Bengaluru for the next five days. The IMD also issued a yellow alert for the city on Wednesday.

A boy pushes a table in a flooded locality of Bellandur after heavy monsoon rains, in Bengaluru, Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022. (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the state government has prepared a memorandum on rain damage estimate meticulously and transparently and the Government of India must be recommended to release a fair compensation to Karnataka as per the central guidelines, reports Indian Express.

Bengaluru South Lok Sabha member Tejasvi Surya was trolled and criticised by a section of social media users accusing him of relishing dosa and promoting an eatery in his constituency, when many parts of the city have been reeling under torrential rains and floods. In a 40-second video that has gone viral, the National President of BJP Yuva Morcha can be seen eating 'Butter Masala Dosa' and 'Uppittu' (Upma) at an eatery in Padmanabhanagar and praising its quality and taste. He also recommended it to people asking them to come and taste the food there. There is no mention as to when the video was shot. However, Congress' national social media co-coordinator Lavanya Ballal said the video is said to be dated September 5, when most parts of the city were flooded. (PTI)

The division bench of the Karnataka HC headed by Acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe was hearing a public interest litigation about the alleged “poor management” of roads by the BBMP. During the hearing, the BBMP advocate informed the court about the steps being taken to prevent flooding in the city, reported PTI. The court was told that all the lakes in Bengaluru will have sluice gates installed.

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the city civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to immediately set up cells to address the grievances of citizens affected by the heavy rains and flood situation in several areas here, reported PTI. The direction mandates setting up of a cell in each ward of Bengaluru. Each cell will have an engineer who will attend to the grievance of the public.

Migrants carrying their belongings shift from a flooded locality of Bellandur after heavy monsoon rains, in Bengaluru, Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022. (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)

Bengaluru's civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has a 24×7 helpline (2266 0000) and WhatsApp helpline (94806 85700), along with zonal helpline numbers. The toll-free number 1533 is also reportedly acting as the rain helpline.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has announced that normal supply of drinking water in Bengaluru will be restored on Wednesday. The supply had been affected since Monday due to the inundation of two pumphouses at TK Halli on the Cauvery river.

A migrant carrying belongings shifts from a flooded locality of Bellandur after heavy monsoon rains, in Bengaluru, Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2022. (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)

The city's Cauvery water supply is said to have resumed to a large extent, after the supply was hit in some areas because of flooding at a pumping station in T K Halli, officials said, reported PTI.

Official sources have told PTI that most parts of waterlogged roads have been cleared, while work is on for removing water in some of the worst hit areas that were inundated, amid some respite from rains. Traffic is reportedly returning to usual levels, and things may get back to normal very soon.

Primary and high schools in Bengaluru's East Zone remained closed today due to heavy rainfall and waterlogging.

Information technology industry veteran T V Mohandas Pai has said that the devastation caused in Bengaluru due to heavy rains was a result of multiple factors, including bad governance, high corruption and lack of urban reforms.

According to AIR new, an inter-ministerial Central team met with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and his cabinet in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

An (PTI/Shailendra Bhojak) Image showing traffic jam on water-logged roads at Sarjapur after heavy monsoon rains in Bengaluru on Monday.

The HAL Airport Traffic Police Station on Wednesday said that water logging near Eco World is yet to be brought under control. Traffic is slow and commuters have been advised to avoid this route.