<p>The evening showers on Saturday served to test the monsoon preparedness of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.<br /><br /></p>.<p>While several places in the City were waterlogged, rainwater gushed into houses in some low-lying areas. The rain left trees uprooted in as many as nine areas. A wall collapsed at JP Nagar, but there were no reports of any casualties. <br /><br />Palike engineers who had to be present at BBMP control rooms to address rain-related problems were missing.<br /><br />Angered by their neglect of duty, Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy and Deputy Mayor L Srinivas, touring the City to monitor the situation, directed suspension of three engineers - R Jagannath, an assistant executive engineer of Ward-99, K N Krishnamurthy and H Ravindranath, the assistant engineers of Town Planning Department.<br /><br />Traffic went haywire as Bangalore recorded 41.2 mm of rain in four hours. The lack of co-ordination between the Palike and the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board came to fore with a manhole on Kasturba Road overflowing for the third consecutive day.<br /><br />Waterlogging was reported from Bhuvaneshwari Nagar, Park Road, Banashankari II Stage, Nagamma Layout, Urvashi Theatre, NR Colony, Indiranagar and near Sun City in Sarjapur. <br /><br />Areas in and around Bangalore South received heavy rainfall. A huge mango tree that came crashing down on Nandidurga Road put people to great inconvenience.<br /><br />According to the Meteorological Department, there will be no change in the weather conditions in the next few days.</p>
<p>The evening showers on Saturday served to test the monsoon preparedness of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.<br /><br /></p>.<p>While several places in the City were waterlogged, rainwater gushed into houses in some low-lying areas. The rain left trees uprooted in as many as nine areas. A wall collapsed at JP Nagar, but there were no reports of any casualties. <br /><br />Palike engineers who had to be present at BBMP control rooms to address rain-related problems were missing.<br /><br />Angered by their neglect of duty, Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy and Deputy Mayor L Srinivas, touring the City to monitor the situation, directed suspension of three engineers - R Jagannath, an assistant executive engineer of Ward-99, K N Krishnamurthy and H Ravindranath, the assistant engineers of Town Planning Department.<br /><br />Traffic went haywire as Bangalore recorded 41.2 mm of rain in four hours. The lack of co-ordination between the Palike and the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board came to fore with a manhole on Kasturba Road overflowing for the third consecutive day.<br /><br />Waterlogging was reported from Bhuvaneshwari Nagar, Park Road, Banashankari II Stage, Nagamma Layout, Urvashi Theatre, NR Colony, Indiranagar and near Sun City in Sarjapur. <br /><br />Areas in and around Bangalore South received heavy rainfall. A huge mango tree that came crashing down on Nandidurga Road put people to great inconvenience.<br /><br />According to the Meteorological Department, there will be no change in the weather conditions in the next few days.</p>
