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Is city planning in Chennai the worst ? I have seen this always whenever there are rains it floods. Hyderabad has flooding too but not as much as Chennai. I seen pictures of people parking on bridges and in house to avoid flooding. 

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Have lived in Chennai for 16 years of my childhood. Never seen so much flooding before 2015. 

This is a recent curse after all low lying areas and lakes have been converted to apartment complexes.

 

Same thing in Bangalore, with massive apartments built over lakes 

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8 minutes ago, bowl_out said:

Have lived in Chennai for 16 years of my childhood. Never seen so much flooding before 2015. 

This is a recent curse after all low lying areas and lakes have been converted to apartment complexes.

 

Same thing in Bangalore, with massive apartments built over lakes 

 

Same thing in Kolkata. The areas that flood mostly are areas that were swamps/marshes that were drained in the 80s-90s to make apartments but no drainage itself put in to prevent it from flooding in rainy season. 

I hear its the same problem in Amravati. 
Pretty much the only flat-as-you-get city that hasnt expanded in a way it can flood, that i know of, is Bhubaneshwar. 

 

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Bangalore is probably worse. It was well planned for it's population upto the 70's and 80's 

 

Can't sustain 10 million .

 

Also the floods occur because we have dried out all the lakes and built over them 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Bangalore is probably worse. It was well planned for it's population upto the 70's and 80's 

 

Can't sustain 10 million .

 

Also the floods occur because we have dried out all the lakes and built over them 

 

 

This is going to get worse and worse. How are houses allowed on lakes. Recently Hyderabad govt has demolished multiple houses built on lakes.

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56 minutes ago, gattaca said:

This is going to get worse and worse. How are houses allowed on lakes. Recently Hyderabad govt has demolished multiple houses built on lakes.

For my property in Bangalore, I had to get a dwelling certificate from BMRDA certifying that the property is not built on water land/lake. The process is there to follow. Also there is a door for corruption. It is very easy to get it for a few bucks. Of course the property is not built on a lake, but still we can see so many. We know how and why

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On 10/16/2024 at 6:08 PM, gattaca said:

Is city planning in Chennai the worst ? I have seen this always whenever there are rains it floods. Hyderabad has flooding too but not as much as Chennai. I seen pictures of people parking on bridges and in house to avoid flooding. 

Floods are in almost every city. Gurgaon, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi 

 

 

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10 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

For my property in Bangalore, I had to get a dwelling certificate from BMRDA certifying that the property is not built on water land/lake. The process is there to follow. Also there is a door for corruption. It is very easy to get it for a few bucks. Of course the property is not built on a lake, but still we can see so many. We know how and why

The whole Manyata tech park is built on water land 

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On 10/16/2024 at 6:08 PM, gattaca said:

Is city planning in Chennai the worst ? I have seen this always whenever there are rains it floods. Hyderabad has flooding too but not as much as Chennai. I seen pictures of people parking on bridges and in house to avoid flooding. 

Not Chennai's fault.
Every metropolitan city has grown exponentially over the last few years, where every lakes, ponds and other river-beds are being filled and then used to construct apartments. Water when it rains need a passage to the ground, with the underground gutter system is poorly maintained, water has nowhere to go but enter into the roads and low-lying areas. 
Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Bengaluru everywhere same problem.

In Hyderabad, HYDRAA authority is hell bent on demolishing the apartments created over water bodies, Nagarjuna's "N-Convention" too is demolished. Many other apartments are under risk of demolishing as well, some even in the old city. 

Cities like Ahmedabad and New Delhi are somewhat in better shape, as river flowing from the city carries the extra water through itself. In Hyderabad as well they're trying to re-vive the now defunct Musi river, which is now nothing but a nala full of all the garbage you can see.
 

 

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