People travel in excavator on flooded Bengaluru road, Anand Mahindra says this

With their roads inundated due to heavy rains over the past few days, the enterprising people of Bengaluru found different ways to commute to office - and their spirit has got a big thumbs up from industrialist Anand Mahindra.

It was for a video, shot by a user named Govind Kumar, which showed an excavator crawling across a flooded Bangaluru road with people, some of whom looked like going to work, perched on its bucket and near the driver's seat.

"Bengaluru innovation Hub for a reason,"posted Kumar in his video and it was seconded by the Mahindra Group chairman.


"I second that thought. Where there’s a will, there’s a way…" wrote Mahindra in his Twitter post.

Many of his followers on the social media platform has their own different thoughts on such adventurous modes of commute.

"What if something went wrong," wondered one user.

"Travelling 8 kms to reach offices takes sometimes 5 hrs also..," pointed out another user.

"They managed to work from home throughout the lockdown. Why are they now hellbent to go to the office when the roads are flooded? Can't they continue WFH for a couple of days? Putting their own lives and their employees' lives at risk," argued another. To which another user replied:" No power and water at home."

"Work from home should be made mandatory for congested cities like Pune Mumbai Bangalore and Noida," sugested a user.

"I am sorry but this has less to do with will and more to do with the sorry condition of infrastructure, climate change, reality of Silicon Valley of India," wrote another.

Some, however, saw the lighter side of it .

Reports from the waterlogged city said many IT professionals resorted to tractors to reach their workplaces.

One such area was Yemalur, close to the HAL Airport, where many employees of IT companies took tractors to reach their offices in other parts of the city on Monday.

There was an outpouring of their angst on social media, some questioning the authorities, and others ruing the eroding green cover leading to new civic challenges.