Even as most IT companies resumed operations by either letting their employees work from home or from centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, a few major IT parks on Thursday were still trying to clear their premises of water.
Refuting rumours and allegations on social media about causalities in their premises due to flooding, a senior official with the DLF IT park in Manapakkam said steady progress was being made in dewatering the basement. Three parking levels also got flooded and the premises were inundated under 3 feet of water that had overflowed from the channel nearby. “About 50 motor pumps, brought in from Coimbatore and Pune, are being used to pump out water from the middle and lower basements. The upper basement is now completely free of water across all the blocks.”
Employees, the official added, were not allowed into the basement to retrieve their cars due to safety reasons. “We were able to clear out more than 360 cars on Tuesday ahead of the flooding. Officials from the Corporation and other government agencies have come in for inspections today and we expect to start functioning after a few days after all the water is drained out,” he said.
At the Olympia Tech Park in Ekkaduthangal, the lower basement is still under 4 feet of water and water is being pumped out. In both the technology parks, only IT technicians and administrative resource persons were allowed inside to check on their offices and see if the servers are working.
