Wednesday, September 7, 2022 – 1:40 PM WIB
LIVE the world – Severe floods submerged India’s tech capital Bangalore on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. The floods inundated offices of tech companies, multimillion-dollar mansions, destroyed slums and cut transport links to the offices.
The floods in Bangalore, known as India’s Silicon Valley, have highlighted the vulnerability of even relatively wealthy cities in the region 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 outages and water supply crises in some areas. A woman is said to have died by electrocution.
Flood in Bangalore, India.
Bangalore is India’s most important technology hub. The city is home to the offices and hubs of outsourcing giant India 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 been forced 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.
