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Do Met Officials Get Their Calculations Wrong? Is The Administration Slack?

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    • Publish Date: Aug 6 2016 5:24PM
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    • Updated Date: Aug 6 2016 5:26PM
Do Met Officials Get Their Calculations Wrong? Is The Administration Slack?

It’s pathetic how three major cities ­ Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Mumbai — touted as India’s Millennium City, Silicon Valley and financial capital have been crippled by waterlogging and monster traffic jams brought on by monsoon rains. The utter lack of preparedness on the part of local administration and the crumbling public infrastructure in these cities have thoroughly exposed talks of building smart metropolises. 
At this point most Indians would settle for normal functional cities. Instead, they are stuck with politicians talking big but doing very little to improve urban spaces. Consider the situation in Gurgaon, home to nearly half of the Fortune 500 companies. Waterlogging of key roads resulted in a 20-hour traffic jam. 
Similarly, in the IT hub of Bengaluru consecutive nights of rain last week saw several parts of the city being flooded. Even if the downpour was on the higher side, the real trouble is that Bengaluru suffers from creaking road infrastructure. The city that’s become synonymous with Digital India dreams can’t fly if it can’t even fix its drainage. Monsoon-related flooding of parts of Mumbai has become an annual occurrence. But it shouldn’t be. 
True, other parts of India have also been hit by monsoon floods —in Assam over 25 people have died in the deluge. But urban centres like Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Mumbai are supposed to epitomise development and progress. That they should crumble under monsoon showers highlights shoddy urban planning, poor regulatory framework and utter administrative mismanagement. Indians deserve better cities.

This brings us to the question of the day:  
Do Met officials get their calculations wrong? Is the administration slack?
 
"The Met department had predicted heavy rainfall, but the state governments were not prepared for the deluge. Hardly any measures were taken to deal with the problem. Adding to the woes was concretisation which prevents water from seeping into the soil. Laxity on the part of the authorities makes matters serious every year."
Sarthak Rao, class X, DAV Public School, Airoli, Mumbai

Heavy rains across the country have indeed disrupted the proper functioning of major Indian cities. The calculations of Met officials has been wrong and the administration is obviously slack. It's time for quick decision making and even prompt action. 
Aqsha Naimuddin, class XI, Shri Shikshayatan School, Kolkata
 
 
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Harini.V Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Its a big issue in India. The other cities should have been prepared for the floods at least after the major hit in Chennai. The meteorological department should give accurate information. That has never happened in India. Most of the times their predictions go wrong. I feel many apps are better than met department. Before the monsoon, the government should check the road conditions and water running systems.

NAVYA MALHOTRA SWARAJ INDIA PUBLIC SCHOOL

Our calculations have gone wrong this time...we always thought that the world is safe till we are alive but our actions have shown up their consequences .....we know that the world will not exist if we do not work hard ....yet ,do we?

Burhanuddin Fatehi CHRIST CHURCH HIGH SCH-BYCULLA

The Met department can only predict by using techniques. They predicted that the La Nina effect can take place causing heavy rainfall. the occurring and not occurring of the La Nina is not in their hands. It has to be understood that the calculations are estimates and estimate need not be true.

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