The chat room: `Why does it take a CM visit to fix the city?´
(WorldNews India)

Overflowing drains, flooded homes and waterlogged roads - the monsoon is a difficult time for Bengaluru. Authorities, who make many promises, rarely see them through, opting instead for short-term, reactive measures that no doubt line the pockets of corrupt officials and contractors. The Chief Minister’s inspection of the city, however, resulted in him waiting it out through a traffic jam, dealing with a broken down bus and walking, shawl over nose to keep out the stench, through some of the areas that were worst -hit by the recent flooding. Is this the push our authorities need to...