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Rain Drain: Reasonfor Brain Drain

Rain Drain: Reason for Brain Drain

Sir,

When an Indian can't walk safely on the pavement during the rains can one complain about him/ her leaving for another country?

In Bangalore, as roads are widened at the expense of pavement area, the width of drains lying below pavements (where a pavement or a semblance of it exists) drastically reduces, thereby reducing their capacity.

In some areas, drains are completely sealed off by large corporates who don't want to see culverts near their offices.

Also vested interests pay corporators to retar roads in front of their houses/ offices so that rain water doesn't flow into storm water drains on their road, thus spoiling the road surface camber, and storm water that should have flowed into a drain, flows on the road surface, and into any low-lying area.

What can be done is, to ensure that a rain-water harvesting mechanism is implemented in the storm water drains, thereby recharging the water table as the water flows through the drain.

On another note: - All elections should be held only after the monsoons, and after all the candidates have been forced to walk on foot through the city during the rains. Those who survive electrocution and/ or drowning should be forced to stay in houses in low-lying areas during the monsoons. If they fall sick they should be admitted to the nearest government hospital. All those who survive could be then permitted to stand for elections.

Regards,
Sunil Pichamuthu

posted by Sunil Pichamuthu @ 10:58 PM
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