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A chartered accountant based in Hyderabad, his eight-month-pregnant wife and their driver recently had a horrific experience after their car got stranded in a flooded tunnel on the outer ring road, reliving memories of the horrific accident in Bengaluru where a technician from Vijayawada died after her car got stuck in a Flood water two months ago.
In his tweets on Friday morning, M. The incident happened last week when he and his wife were traveling in their car in ORR and coming out towards Vattinagulapalli. Once their car stopped in the flood waters, he chose to stay and tried to call his friends for help. They didn’t get out of the situation until a friend arrived at the scene.
When a user asked him why he was driving onto a road full of water and wondered if it was due to “false confidence”, Uday Teja said there was no alternative route for him. “First, there is no alternative route to my destination. Second, wait to see if other cars have passed. They did and so did I. It was my bad fate that my car got stuck. Third, this would not have happened if there had been a drain hole in the wall on Left. It’s easy to blame the victim.”
The tweets received a response from the Special Secretary of the state’s municipal administration, Arvind Kumar, on Sunday evening. Referring to the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HMDA) in a quoted tweet, Kumar said, “This is not acceptable, please ensure it is cleared and made roadworthy within 24 hours.”
@tweet this is unacceptable
Please make sure to clean it and make it usable in the next 24 hours– Arvind Kumar (@arvindkumar_ias) July 2, 2023
Uday Teja blamed the tunnel’s engineering for the waterlogging. “One simple mistake by the engineering team cost me 40,000 and two extra pedestrians cost me much more. The great engineering team that built the ORR service road near the Film Towers forgot to put drainage holes in the small barrier wall. This did not let the rain water run into the Nala River “.
He added that many cars are stuck in the same location. “12 BMWs and 8 Mercs got waterlogged in one rainy night costing the citizens Hyd crores of Rupees. Is this what #SNDP is about? Building Nalas is great but putting up a 1ft wall and not letting water into the Nala is a masterpiece . Is there any solution?” (sic) he asked.
In response, another Twitter user Ridhima G said: “The entire infrastructure being built does not have storm drains, wondering how the engineering team can show such a callous attitude and cause damage and concern to the public!” Another user, Adithya M Reddy, said, “All projects should be reviewed and an appropriate urban flood control plan created.”
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