Baarish!!

For last couple of weeks i feel i am in Bangalore. Pleasant weather, soothing breeze...these are not typical characteristics of Hyderabad. Well people are actually not happy like me seeing this weather. They say this time of the year it should have been raining daily as its monsoon season. I knew rains are important for us but now i realized how much its important for India. Almost everybody here depends on rains. People in my village are getting restless as by this time they would have been sowing, but cos of scanty rains the dams are not full and hence the govt is delaying releasing water for irrigation. No rains means less agricultural land under cultivation. Hence lesser production which will lead to higher cost which will in turn affect their lives. If you are a businessmen in village then your business is affected as most of it is related to agriculture like pesticides, fertilizers etc. No rains means lesser electricity production and the power cuts are maximum in the rural areas. Some villages see 50% cut in power supply. And we cannot take a couple of hours of power cut in cities.

Even if it rains in the village they are not exactly concerned about them as all they want is it should rain in the areas which will feed the dams. Well not everybody is worried about scanty rains. Almost every year we hear the same story about Mumbai flooding.

It has been a huge problem for people in Mumbai. Everybody blames BMC for not building good drainage systems etc. Not sure how much BMC is doing to fix it. I am sure govt might be allocating a lot of money to get this problem solved. But the extreme level of corruption at muncipalities is well known fact. So i wouldnt trust them to get this issue to be fixed in near future. If the same amount of rain falls in any city in India as in Mumbai , i am sure that city would be in similar situation. Lets just hope it rains in other parts of the country.