The report, following a two-month study conducted by the consultancy firm, emphasises the requirement for laying an additional 600 kilometres of SWD to mitigate recurrent flooding in the city.
Twenty-two-year-old Bhanu Rekha died on May 21 after the car she was travelling in with her family submerged due to waterlogging at the KR Circle underpass in Bengaluru.
A 23-year-old woman, working as a techie in Infosys, died on Sunday after her car got stuck in the flooded KR Circle underpass in Bengaluru. The tragedy puts the spotlight on Bengaluru s flooding woes – a poor drainage system, encroachment on open lands and lack of urban planning
Former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday accused the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials of negligence in taking up precautionary measures against heavy rains, despite warnings from the Meteorological Department.