About seven years after Telangana’s Warangal was chosen to be developed as a Smart City by the Union government’s Smart Cities Mission, parts of the city still record flooding during heavy rains because of its inefficient drainage system.
Despite the Bharat Rashtra Samithi-led state government being constantly criticised by locals, activists and opposition leaders for failing to ensure that Telangana’s second largest city remains protected from floods, slum dwellers continue to bear the brunt.
