Wednesday, September 7, 2022 – 1:40 PM WIB
LIVE the world – Flood great to have sunk the capital region Technology IndiaBangalore, Tuesday September 6, 2022. Floods have inundated the offices of tech companies, multi-million dollar mansions, destroyed slums and cut transport links to the office.
The floods in Bangalore, known as India’s Silicon Valley, have highlighted the vulnerability of even the region’s relatively wealthy cities to extreme weather conditions and exposed poor infrastructure.
reported from FinancialTimes, heavy rain earlier this week turned the streets of Bangalore city into rivers. Local media reported power cuts and a water supply crisis in some areas. A woman is said to have died by electrocution.
Floods in Bangalore, India.
Bangalore is India’s most important technology hub. The city is home to the offices and hubs of Indian outsourcing giants Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services and global companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Visa. The operational activities of technology companies have also been disrupted and their employees have to work from home.
“It’s the result of bad governance and corruption,” said Mohandas Pai, a former Infosys executive and chairman of venture capital fund Aarin Capital.
Pai said the flooding was a rebuke to the city government and “a call for us to invest more in infrastructure”, adding that negligent government officials should be fired.
