8 trees crash; Karnataka CM asks BBMP to get its rain act together

Heavy rains lashed the city on Monday evening, uprooting eight trees and sparking off traffic jams across the city.

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike said trees were uprooted at Shantala Junction and railway station in Majestic, Jayanagar 4th Block, Ragi Gudda area, Banashankari, 5th Main and I Stage, 7th Cross in BTM Layout and Koramangala bus stand.

An uprooted tree lay across the roads, causing a bumper-to-bumper traffic at Bharati Nursing Home and Sanjay Gandhi Hospital junctions and on KR Road. Waterlogging was reported from Nanjundeshwara Layout in JP Nagar.

When the newly-elected mayor, Sharadamma, called the chief minister, he said that the government would provide full support to the BBMP in the execution of developmental works. Asking the mayor to take all precautionary measures before the onset of monsoon, he said all storm water drains should be desilted and encroachments cleared as the rainy season was fast approaching.

Sharadamma and her deputy S Harish, in the meantime, presented Rs1 lakh cheque as compensation to the widow of Neelasandra street vendor, Dawood Khan, who died in rain havoc on Sunday.