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Govt ignores report on Maha climate change: IT hub Pune digs own grave
Updated On: 29 September, 2019 07:19 AM IST | Pune | Ranjeet Jadhav, Chaitraly Deshmukh
Exclusive: Shocked at the unprecedented devastation that last week's deluge caused in Pune? You shouldn't be. As satellite city endures real estate boom mirroring Mumbai, activists say 2014 TERI report spoke of higher temperatures, heavier rain
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The violent Karha river in Saswad, 40 kms from Pune, destroyed the bridge than runs over it. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar
A warning had come to the Maharashtra government that Pune would be prone to floods as early as 2014. Of course, in the manner of most things government, the warning was ignored. Result? Severe rainfall this week has left 22 people in Pune city dead and four missing. Rainfall of 106 mm fell in the city over only two days last week—Tuesday and Wednesday. Yet, 16,000 people had to be evacuated to safety from not just Pune City, but areas like Baramati, Bhor, Purandhar, Saswad and Khed-Shivapur.
All this could have been avoided, says Sarang Yadwadkar had the state government paid heed to the report that had been kept on its desk by the The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a Delhi-based research institute that specialises in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development.
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