Saturday, December 05, 2015

India's leading tech city Chennai declared disaster zone...

India’s tech city Chennai and other coastal regions in Tamil Nadu are very much under water due to incessant rains. The rain still continues in some areas. The heavy downpour has broken all records of last 100 years and the government has declared Chennai as a disaster zone.

Continuous torrential rains, devastating floods and raising water levels have affected almost all sectors of life in the city affecting everyone from the 4.6 million people living here in some way or the other. Millions of lives are at stake, hundreds stranded with no food and drinking water.

Transportation has also been badly affected with over 50 trains either being cancelled or diverted because of the rail tracks being flooded with water at several spots. Many flights to and from Chennai have been cancelled and the airport is to remain shut till December 6 leaving roughly 700 people stranded. Not even a flight has landed or taken off from Chennai since 8:30 p.m. this Tuesday.

Along with all this, the city’s IT hub has been hit hard due to the devastating floods. Offices of top tech companies like Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and many other leading firms have been flooded leaving dozens of employees stranded and harming the infrastructure and work harshly. Most of the projects outsourced by foreign companies to Chennai’s IT firms have stuck with no hope of being resumed any soon. This suggests that floods in Chennai have not just affected the lives and work of people here but have also affected the foreign companies which consistently outsource work to leading Indian IT firms in the city. Full story...

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