Bengaluru’s civic body BBMP to partner with IISc for flood forecast

Synopsis In the background of the flooding in Bengaluru throughout the monsoon season in 2015, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the civic body, is on the brink of a contract with IISc Bangalore to produce a design to anticipate a location’s vulnerability to flooding for the city, sources in the BBMP informed ET.In the background of the flooding in Bengaluru throughout the monsoon season in 2015, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the civic body, is on the brink of a contract with IISc Bangalore to produce a design to anticipate a location’s vulnerability to flooding for the city, sources in the BBMP informed ET. The design, which will be checked this monsoon season, will be approved around Rs 2.5 crore over 3 years. The information will then be utilized to prioritise drain tidy up in various parts of the city. In 2015, the city – referred to as India’s Silicon Valley – experienced its greatest rains up until now, clocking in 1,560 mm rain versus its average of 950 mm, BBMP Chief Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath informed ET. “This year, we have actually released 28 professionals – one per department – and we’re getting stormwater drains pipes cleaned out when every 3 months. The work is on track,” he stated. The entire tidy up task, he included, expenses around Rs 3000 crore. A larger obstacle is the list of insufficient works dotting the city, which stop the circulation of water and trigger flooding. “This year, we hav
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