Kim James 
IT organizations, authorities look for answers to avoid site visitors’ jams at some point in the monsoon. IT agencies in Hyderabad have decided to head for staggered exit timings after office hours for the duration of heavy rains to keep away from traffic gridlock. The idea is to avoid a repeat of last week’s site visitors jam while after a downpour, the Madhapur IT hub and surrounding areas saw severe traffic jams, with lakhs of automobiles caught for over six hours. With the worst but to come in the wet season, the IT enterprise, site visitors police, and civic government have determined to do something positive about it.
Though the corporations aren’t thinking about any exchange in timings, they will build IT-enabled real-time verbal exchange systems to alert their personnel about viable downpours. “We will encourage staff to stay back in the office an hour or two to avoid being stuck in waterlogged roads. An hour inside the office, perhaps, will store them a couple of hours inside the site visitors jam,” Murali Bollu, President of Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA).
“The wide variety of IT personnel has doubled to 5 lakh from 2.5 lakh four years in the past. Obviously, the number of -wheelers and four-wheelers need to have multiplied. This is including up to the problem, in particular after a heavy downpour,” he said. The affiliation represents loads of small and huge IT corporations, with total exports of ₹1.20 lakh crore.
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner Dana Kishore convened a sequence of conferences with Cyberabad police, HYSEA, and the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) to discover approaches to keep away from a repeat remaining week’s situation. Though the town has over four,500 km of roads, approximately seventy-five in step with cent of the site visitors burden is said on a stretch of one,500 km. The variety of automobiles in the metropolis is placed at 26—five lakh and increasing 11 in line with cent each year.
WhatsApp networks
The GHMC will establish a WhatsApp or different IT-backed conversation network, roping in facility managers of IT groups inside the IT hub, visitors police, and different stakeholders. “Based on the Indian Meteorological Department’s advisory, the GHMC will send indicators to the facility managers 24 hours in advance of a likely heavy rain. This can be accompanied up with the aid of a 2nd message hours before the probable downpour. They, in flip, will alert their employees,” Murali said.
The GHMC and site visitors police are concentrated on organizations with more than 2,000 employees, especially throughout 4-6 pm. “We are taking on some of avenue infrastructure tasks in and around the IT hubs at a fee of ₹25,000 crores underneath Strategic Road Development Programme. They are in diverse tiers crowning glory, and we expect them to be prepared in years,” Dana Kishore instructed a stakeholders’ assembly.
“Till they become to be had, we need to locate methods to deal with the trouble. From our cease, we have diagnosed some dozen spots that get waterlogged where we can use pump sets to pump out floodwaters,” he said. The IT industry feels that the hassle needs to be tackled rapidly. “It is anticipated that the number of IT employees might double again to 10 lakh inside the next five years,” Murali stated.
