But it was not only Bengaluru’s middle class and Poor that were affected by the flood. Bengaluru’s most high-end residential properties and well-known tech parks have been the worst hit by the overflow of the Bellandur and Yemalur lakes (in southeast Bengaluru). Few of the videos that went viral were of Divyasree 77 street, the Billionaire’s street as it is called. Epsilon–home to corporate and business elite including Wipro chairman Rishad Premji, Britannia CEO Varun Berry, Big Basket co-founder Abhinay Choudhari, BigBasket co-founder Abhinay Choudhari, Page Industries (Jockey) MD Ashok Genomal and Byju’s co-founder Byju Raveendran–has been flooded. A video of Epsilon where plush cars and posh bungalows were submerged in water.Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal was seen on a tractor in Bengaluru. Munjal wrote that his family and dog were evacuated from his society. Biotechnology industry veteran Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has termed the rain havoc in Bengaluru as “”devastating””. According to a report, the IT and Banking firms lost ₹225 crore in a day due to these floodings. Why did Bengaluru get flooded and what was the reason behind these unprecedented chaos in India’s Silicon valley? To talk about this we have with us Captain Santhosh Kumar. He is a retired army officer who returned to his native Muthanallur in Anekal taluk in 2008. He has been working on clearing encroachments on SWDs for the past few years. And he has a perfect answer to what’s behind Bengaluru’s flooding problem?
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