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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Deep Kaushik Vakil

India's IT hub Bengaluru may need $339 million to fix drainage, avoid flooding -report

FILE PHOTO: Residents are evacuated to safer places in a tractor trolley after heavy rains caused flooding in a residential area in Bengaluru, India, November 22, 2021. REUTERS/Samuel Rajkumar/File Photo

India's Bengaluru city may need nearly 28 billion rupees ($339 million) to restore a drainage network damaged by unfettered urbanization as repeated floods threaten to disrupt work and life in the IT hub, a report said.

Dubbed India's Silicon Valley for hosting more than 3,500 IT companies and startups, the city has seen an influx of millions of workers and a boom in real estate construction over the past two decades.

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