Bengaluru ORR Flooding: A Recurring Challenge That Needs Structural Solutions Yesterday's (June 2) heavy rainfall once again flooded key stretches of Bengaluru’s ORR, including Panathur, Balagere and Varthur, resulting in severe congestion and hours-long commutes for thousands of employees and residents. While the immediate trigger was an intense pre-monsoon... downpour, the root causes remain unchanged: - Blocked and poorly maintained shoulder drains - Stormwater drains clogged with plastic, silt, sand and construction debris - Encroachment of drains and rajakaluves, reducing carrying capacity - Bottlenecks at critical lake interconnections and culverts - Ongoing infrastructure and metro construction impacting road and drainage networks Amidst the disruption, it was encouraging to see citizens, volunteers, traffic police, and local communities come together to assist stranded commuters, help manage traffic movement, and clear blockages wherever possible. Their swift response and collective effort helped ease the situation. Action requested from the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA): ✅ Fast-track desilting and cleaning of all stormwater drains before peak monsoon ✅ Remove encroachments along Rajakaluves and restore original drain widths ✅ Undertake a corridor-wide drainage capacity assessment and upgrade bottleneck culverts ✅ Implement a real-time flood monitoring and rapid-response mechanism for critical ORR junctions The solution is not just better roads, but integrated stormwater infrastructure that matches the scale and density of Bengaluru’s IT corridor. #Bengaluru #ORR #Infrastructure #UrbanPlanning #FloodResilience #GBA #TechCorridor #MonsoonPreparedness #ORRCAshow more

As an association you have failed us here by not putting the demands properly and always bowing out under pressure from government.. no use of forming such association if in 5 years you not able to achieve any benefit

How many of your ASSociated companies declared WFH due to the rain forecast this week?

Save this tweet as template so you can tweet for every year.

This handle wakes up to post a random post. You literally can hold the Govt accountable easily. Yet you are powerless inspite of contributing millions of dollars in taxes to this state govt. Something doesn't add up. How could you not demand better roads and walkways from govt.

For last 6 months GBA has been saying that we will be ready for monsoon. Yet after one heavy rain ORR crippled @GBAChiefComm

First of all, keep the road clean. See the impact yourself. Have you seen how an entire lane on both sides of ORR is covered with sand, dust, cement blocks, mattress, pillows, cardboard etc? Clean that first.

Don't give a typical IT project solution. Tons of complex jargon and fancy solutions. Simple steps first. Clean the roads of sand and debris. This itself will keep the entry to drains free. Automatically reduces silt in the debris. You don't need rocket science solutions

What's the point of having an association that needs to tweet to point out issues. Meet with officials, and tweet about hwat discussions were done. Don't complain here. Citizens are doing that already.

What you have requested is all useless. Just basic cleaning the roads, ensuring there's no dust accumulation on roads and near drain entries will solve a major problem.

U r the reason for flooding, building on lakes & encroaching drains..

Items found on ORR last 2 weeks still not cleared - Fishing net at IBLUR firing range area, Mattress, pillow, tons of sand, 1 full lane is filled with fine sand, dust, construction debris

@0RRCA diz s nt d 1st tym flooding issues, wht happen 2 d promise made by @GBA_office 2 u, provide permanent WFH or move to tier 2 city, "don't expect infra only pay tax N b silent" GBA MINDVOICE fyi @ABPNews @ZeeNews @ndtv @ChristinMP_ @IndiaToday @DeccanHerald @XpressBengaluru

Did anyone cleaned yesterday after the flood?? Again it's cloudy

This is not an IT corridor. Pathetic management by Bangalore authorities. Slums are better than this. Doesn't the GBA know how to clean drains regularly, then they should stop collecting taxes.

Quality of engineers & Town planning is very poor, else, this situation won't arise.

my take is - public works completed by PRIVATE funding can be world-class, accountable&far more cheaper(to comply with law, include a bobblehead- govt certified Class A contractor)

@GBAChiefComm @GBA_office @DKShivakumar @RahulGandhi @INCIndia @PiyushGoyal

Why dont you do it? just like transportation take it upon yourselves - there are ton of NGOs(Youth for parivartana can create a new charter), I will be happy to fund, whatever i can this ultra-dependence on "governance by govt" has seen its course it must go soon

Solutions: @DKShivakumar

@GBA_office knows the problem, everyone on this earth knows the problem. The inaction comes from lack of accountability, empathy. The corruption is killing India.

u keep on asking questions. They don’t do anything samething will happen & again you request govt to implement They don’t do it repeat this process. It shows how important your association is.

Now you have woken up u are white elephant

What stops you from announcing wfh ?

isn't this the reason where white topping is planned ? :D pun intended

Just check the drain aka Rakakaluve right next to the compound of RMZ Eco Space that's the channel which connects soulkere but it is heavily encroached narrowed to just few feet and worst part every authority is smart blind on this ...

Number 1 ask from GBA - have some shame and get to work

Being on X and posting here is like the Diwali greetings comms HR sends. No one cares for it.

Panathur stretch has been in this condition for years, especially the railway underpass. The ORR road project is still incomplete, with major portions left unfinished. Every monsoon, residents and commuters are forced to navigate waterlogged roads and severe traffic congestion.

Why don't you insist companies to announce WFH for all employees until this is sorted out?