Kerala's largest IT park flooded after heavy rain in Thiruvananthapuram

Technopark in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram is India's first IT park.

As heavy rain lashed several parts of Kerala till Sunday, Technopark, the first IT park in the state and India’s first of its kind, was among the areas in state capital Thiruvananthapuram that saw massive flooding.

Many areas of Thiruvananthapuram, the southernmost Kerala district, were waterlogged and flooded on Sunday. Water did not recede from certain areas, leading to rescheduling and delaying of trains. However, as the rains abated briefly on Monday, water receded from most of the areas which were flooded and waterlogged.

On Sunday, several women students had to be rescued in boats from their flooded hostel to safer areas, Asianet News reported.

In the Technopark colony in Kazhakootam, a suburban area in Thiruvananthapuram, water entered homes, leading to people being evacuated.

X (formerly Twitter) users shared videos of the flooded roads in Technopark.

Tvm technopark visuals after Heavy Rains #keralarains pic.twitter.com/tU9kkhIERs

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— MasRainman (@MasRainman) October 15, 2023

Technopark today morning pic.twitter.com/0SvDpQYV8R

— Arunjith M (@Arunji_Official) October 15, 2023

Th area around Technopark. Th Techies cannot rely on 'work frm home' as internet goes down often away frm tis electronic city & effect hugely.

How do you plan to mitigate tis water & in what time? What are your methods to sort out tis issue ASAP? @pinarayivijayan @collectortvpm pic.twitter.com/p5haoCxAPo

— Mariya Tessy (@TessyMariya) October 16, 2023

Visuals also showed people wading through waist-deep water in Thiruvananthapuram.

The weather department said there were cyclonic circulations over coastal Tamil Nadu and neighbourhoods as well as over the Lakshadweep area, adjoining the Southeast Arabian sea and the Kerala coast. Under their influence, light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, gusty wind and lightning were likely at many places in Kerala on Monday and Tuesday, it said. On Sunday, an orange alert was issued in four - Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha - and a yellow alert in eight districts of the state.