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IIT Gandhinagar builds real-time flood platform for Ahmedabad
Technology·Medium term·▼ -1%

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will likely test Rain2Resilience during the next heavy-rain event, and IIT Gandhinagar’s platform will be judged on whether it can fuse drainage data and citizen reports fast enough to change response on the ground.

This is one of the clearest AI/tech-adjacent civic infrastructure stories in the feed. If it works, it could become a template for Indian city flood management; if it fails, it will underline the limits of smart-city promises.

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This is one of the clearest AI/tech-adjacent civic infrastructure stories in the feed. If it works, it could become a template for Indian city flood management; if it fails, it will underline the limits of smart-city promises.

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IIT Gandhinagar is building Rain2Resilience for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to track flood risk and guide response in real time. The platform aims to combine rain forecasts, waterlogging zones, drainage data, field reports and citizen messages. The project follows heavy rain that flooded Indraprastha Complex near Drive-in Road and left nearly 40 shops waterlogged for days.

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IIT Gandhinagar builds real-time flood platform for Ahmedabad

Rain2Resilience is designed to combine forecasts, drainage data, field reports and citizen messages instead of static maps.

Indian Express·2h ago
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