Recent flooding in Mahadevapura zone and other areas, following heavy rain, exposed how the civic agencies failed miserably in protecting lakes and storm water drains.
A year before, in its report on “Performance Audit of Management of stormwater in Bengaluru Urban Area’‘, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had exposed how the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and other civic agencies played their role in the vanishing of lakes and deterioration of storm water drains over the years.
