The rains in April this year were unseasonal. The dumping of garbage and debris by residents in several parts of the city has worsened the situation. Several drains are choked with debris. Houses and rows of slums have sprung up in these areas despite these residents being warned of the impending danger, before they undertook the construction. Some of the slums in the low-lying areas of Shivajinagar, Sampangiramanagara, Ejipura, and Murugesapalya do not have drainage facility.
Most residents here let the dirty water on to the roads throughout the year.
The BMP has not received the payment from some of these areas and the facility has not been provided. Meanwhile, essential services like water and power supply were severely affected. Houses in Ejipura, parts of Sampangiramanagara and Lakshmipura were flooded. Anger and helplessness forced the residents of these areas to stage protests to draw the attention of the BMP to the inundation caused due to water clogging. Whenever it rains, this is the situation, he said We had a difficult time pumping out the water, which entered the houses .