CM Yediyurappa instructs civic body officials to stay on alert as more rains are expected

As rainwater floods the city of Bengaluru, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has instructed the city civic body to stay alert as the Met department predicted heavy rains to go on for two more days.

The direction comes a day after several parts of city, especially south Bengaluru region had faced the brunt of heavy rains.

“Chief Minister had called the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP-city civic body) commissioner Manjunath Prasad and directed him to visit the areas that saw flooding.

He also asked the commissioner to maintain alertness with the Met department predicting heavy rains today and tomorrow also,” the CMO said in a statement.

Yediyurappa, who is also in-charge of Bengaluru related affairs, has convened a meeting with BBMP officials later in the day to assess the situation and measures being taken by the civic body.

Due to rains on Friday evening, while there was water logging in many parts of the city, areas such as Hosakerehalli, Nayandahalli, Basavanagudi, Bommanahalli, Rajarajeshwari Nagar and surrounding places were affected as several roads and houses in these areas were submerged under water.

Gurudatta Layout and Dattatreya Nagar, near Hosakerehalli, some areas near Rajarajeshwari Nagar were the worst affected as many houses in the locality were flooded.