“India Knows How to Build Infrastructure, But It Still Can’t Reliably Track What’s Happening To It”, Swarajya, July 02, 2026
“Bengaluru once had more than 1,400 interconnected water bodies. Today only a fraction remain. Natural drainage channels have been progressively built over, weakening the city’s ability to handle heavy rain.
The flooding the city has witnessed in recent years did not emerge from a single catastrophic decision. It developed incrementally over decades, through small cumulative changes that escaped institutional attention, each individually minor but collectively devastating.
This is what happens when government agencies cannot see what is changing around the infrastructure they manage. Bengaluru is one city. The problem is structural, and it runs across the country………”
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