Hyderabadi Monsoons: What GHMC Is Doing And What Students Can Do?

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1496912785697","data":"I love the monsoon, mostly because there is nothing more I hate than the fiery hell that is the summer. Monsoon signifies a change from a barren wasteland to a bountiful not-so-wasteland, the city cools down, you can sit in your balcony with a hot cup of coffee and find excuses to stay in all day and play video games, it is great! <\/p>However, this idealistic view of monsoons was great when I was a carefree kid obsessed with getting Lara Croft to discover the lost secrets of Atlantis, not so much when I'm an adult. I'm told I have to be a responsible adult, which means going out and getting a job among other things, and since most jobs require you to be somewhere that is not your comfortable bed or your PC\/Console, you'll have to use the beautiful streets of Hyderabad. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1496913656851","data":"593917741f4d3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1496913707466","data":"I love this city, it has given me a lot but navigating its serpentine lifelines during the monsoons become an exercise in patience, your driving skills and sometimes tests your sea legs as well. I would recommend going to the Hyderabad Sailing Club to learn a thing or two to prepare for the season. <\/p>Last year, despite being a poor monsoon, the city came to a grinding halt when heavy rains lashed the city and broke its back. Streets were flooded, traffic jams extended as far as the eye could see, phones ran out of batteries (oh the horror!), tempers ran hot enough to burn the rain drops off of them, it was complete chaos, and of course I was stuck in the middle of one such jam far away from home and cursing my fate, reconsidering why I loved monsoons in the first place. <\/p>I don't want to point fingers here, it's not like the government is not doing anything, because they are. For the heavy rains last year in September, Telangana Minister of Information Technology, K.T. Rama Rao announced in a press conference the measures the government was taking to tackle the battering Hyderabad had received, including but not limited to emergency medical relief, GHMC officials along with Electricity Department, the Police and the Fire Department worked overtime to restore services as soon as possible, and our sewage system was put up for review. <\/p>Today, on a break with my colleagues, we noticed a GHMC van with Monsoon Emergency Vehicle on the side. Upon being approached, the GHMC worker in charge of the vehicle revealed that the government had assigned one vehicle for every two areas of the city. Their responsibilities, they said, was clearing up blocked roads, clearing stagnant water, checking for overflowing drains, checking for open manholes, helping people whose houses are overtaken by water, and in case of a bigger emergency, call backup as well. <\/p>But here's the problem, last year's response was after the fact, a reaction to an event that happened, instead of being prepared and preventing an event like this from happening. With the Monsoon Emergency Vehicle, the Telangana government has taken a commendable step in cutting the response time and ensuring the people get help as soon as possible. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1496917632351","data":"593926d38797d"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1496914711127","data":"The young people of this city will inherit the city tomorrow, should they decide to stay of course. It becomes clear then that in this age of the Internet and IoT, students are the ones that can come up with innovative solutions. One of the key cornerstones of a startup is the question, what problem is the startup solving? A cursory glance on the street outside will give any enterprising individual plenty of problems to solve, so it's about time to get cracking, I suppose. <\/p>Hyderabad is rapidly growing, we're on the global map for what this city stands for, its food and its people are known across the country, sometimes even outside of the country. So it only is fair that we, as citizens of this city, hope for the best from our government when it comes to the metropolitan planning of the city's drains to avoid situations like these. The Hans India reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehansindia.com\/posts\/index\/Telangana\/2017-06-07\/Hyderabad-roads-not-monsoon-ready\/304959\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> that the city roads are still not monsoon ready, despite facing similar situations every year without fail. This is the year that the city faced an extremely annoying heatwave, and monsoons arrived sooner than expected, so it doesn't inspire any confidence in the city streets. <\/p>Roads are a city's lifeline, the traffic on any given road can mean life and death to some, and they don't even have to be in an ambulance for that. The state of driving in this town is a story for another time, but until then, we can only hope that this monsoon passes without incident and roads where you have to sail instead of drive. <\/p>Yeah, the last line sounded a bit too optimistic, but hey, that's the best I can do sitting at the office. It just occurred to be that the funniest thing would be you reading this article while stuck in traffic due to the rain, but then I shouldn't be laughing at your misfortune, I'm not that bad of a person. <\/p>Yet.<\/p>"}]

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