Mahadevapura and Bommanahalli zones have been badly affected as a result of current incessant rains in Bengaluru, but it surely was the tech firms in Mahadevapura zone that bore the utmost brunt because of large flooding and breaching of lakes within the space. Mahadevapura can also be a significant know-how suburb, and the flash floods compelled tech firms to increase work at home for all staff for the remainder of final week.
The Outer Ring Street Firms Affiliation (ORRCA) in an advisory mentioned restore works on the ORR and arterial roads are persevering with. It, nevertheless, urged employees to observe site visitors and climate circumstances and attainable influence of rains on the commute time. The ORR stretch alone is residence to about 500 technology companies.
The Karnataka authorities and IT firms had on September 7 determined to collectively discover a everlasting resolution to the difficulty of waterlogging within the metropolis. The stakeholders additionally agreed to fulfill each month nearly, with representatives from trade our bodies together with Nasscom.
State IT/BT minister CN Ashwath Narayan, who chaired the assembly together with chief secretary Vandita Sharma and Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan had assured that the flooding concern could be resolved by the subsequent monsoon.
