KOLKATA: The closely silted Churial Canal is more likely to purpose in style waterlogging in Behala this monsoon. The drawback may get compounded by way of the large stretches on Diamond Harbour Road dug up for Metro rail development.
The issues had been discussed at a pre-monsoon assembly on the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters a few days ago. A bit of the KMC sewerage and drainage division officers made it transparent that the civic body will be unable to stop inundation of large spaces of Behala similar to Silpara, Sakherbazar, Shakuntala Park and spaces off James Long Sarani this monsoon. “The closely damaged sewerage due to Metro rail development and the lack of dredging of Churial Canal have made these spaces liable to waterlogging. We can, at best possible, give some brief aid by way of undertaking a special desilting force along DH Road,” an legit said.
Some officers are preserving their palms crossed for massive spaces off EM Bypass. Some of these spaces had long gone beneath water closing monsoon on account of a defunct drainage device. “We are anxious about some spaces off EM Bypass similar to Mukundapur, Kalikapur, Madurdaha, New Garia, Kasba, Garfa amongst different spaces. In the event of heavy rains there might be huge scale waterlogging in these spaces. We shall have to empty out the stormwater the use of submersible pumps,” any other legit said.
The KMC top brass took up the problem of waterlogging with Metro rail authorities and the state irrigation division. The irrigation division officers who attended the assembly had been reminded of a Rs Five-crore particular fund that used to be allotted for dredging some highly silted portions of Churial Canal that carries stormwater from Behala. “We have determined to use machines to desilt one of the clogged sewers over the next month. We shall also keep submersible pumps ready for the worst stretches of Behala,” a civic legit said.
However,the officers had a word of hope for some of town’s worst waterlogging-prone spaces in north and central Kolkata. “Effective desilting all through the 12 months has minimized the scope of inundation of maximum waterlogging-prone spaces in north and central Kolkata, together with Amherst Street, Sukia Street, College Street, M.G. Road, Camac Street, Wood Street and Theatre Road,” a KMC legit said .
The issues had been discussed at a pre-monsoon assembly on the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters a few days ago. A bit of the KMC sewerage and drainage division officers made it transparent that the civic body will be unable to stop inundation of large spaces of Behala similar to Silpara, Sakherbazar, Shakuntala Park and spaces off James Long Sarani this monsoon. “The closely damaged sewerage due to Metro rail development and the lack of dredging of Churial Canal have made these spaces liable to waterlogging. We can, at best possible, give some brief aid by way of undertaking a special desilting force along DH Road,” an legit said.
Some officers are preserving their palms crossed for massive spaces off EM Bypass. Some of these spaces had long gone beneath water closing monsoon on account of a defunct drainage device. “We are anxious about some spaces off EM Bypass similar to Mukundapur, Kalikapur, Madurdaha, New Garia, Kasba, Garfa amongst different spaces. In the event of heavy rains there might be huge scale waterlogging in these spaces. We shall have to empty out the stormwater the use of submersible pumps,” any other legit said.
The KMC top brass took up the problem of waterlogging with Metro rail authorities and the state irrigation division. The irrigation division officers who attended the assembly had been reminded of a Rs Five-crore particular fund that used to be allotted for dredging some highly silted portions of Churial Canal that carries stormwater from Behala. “We have determined to use machines to desilt one of the clogged sewers over the next month. We shall also keep submersible pumps ready for the worst stretches of Behala,” a civic legit said.
However,the officers had a word of hope for some of town’s worst waterlogging-prone spaces in north and central Kolkata. “Effective desilting all through the 12 months has minimized the scope of inundation of maximum waterlogging-prone spaces in north and central Kolkata, together with Amherst Street, Sukia Street, College Street, M.G. Road, Camac Street, Wood Street and Theatre Road,” a KMC legit said .
Dug-up roads may flood Behala again this monsoon
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May 19, 2018
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