KOLKATA: Senior officials of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation drainage department were requested to keep a constant vigil on town's prime waterlogging wallet, after ultimate two heavy showers caught a piece of civic officials dozing and cleared the path for large-scale inundation of a few spaces in Kolkata.
An internal investigation via the civic most sensible brass has printed that ultimate Friday broad spaces of north Kolkata - Manicktala, MG Road, Muktaram Babu Street, Thanthania and Chittaranjan Avenue - went beneath water because of lack of timely motion via some officials of the KMC drainage department at the borough degree. Similarly, spaces like Ekbalpore, Mominpur, Kidderpore, Alipore and Chetla in the south have been waterlogged because the civic officials did not have the prior information about the rain.
Waterlogging woes have been further aggravated via presence of a top tide in the Hooghly. "Some of our officials in the drainage pumping stations weren't aware of the tide. So they forgot to near the lock gates along the Tolly's nullah prior to tide hit at 4pm.
Similarly, hurricane water took hours to recede in one of the vital traditional waterlogging wallet in the north. While the waterlogging at Manicktala could be commonplace as the realm skilled heavy rains in brief period, others got waterlogged as some civic officials failed to act on time.
"Timely motion, including operation of pumps and clearing chocked gully pits, will have saved these spaces from inundation," conceded a KMC drainage department official. Bidhan Sarani Avijit Ghosh is concerned: "The town's drainage network was improved in the previous few years so we did not witness such waterlogging. With the onset of monsoon this yr, we are holding our fingers crossed."
An internal investigation via the civic most sensible brass has printed that ultimate Friday broad spaces of north Kolkata - Manicktala, MG Road, Muktaram Babu Street, Thanthania and Chittaranjan Avenue - went beneath water because of lack of timely motion via some officials of the KMC drainage department at the borough degree. Similarly, spaces like Ekbalpore, Mominpur, Kidderpore, Alipore and Chetla in the south have been waterlogged because the civic officials did not have the prior information about the rain.
Waterlogging woes have been further aggravated via presence of a top tide in the Hooghly. "Some of our officials in the drainage pumping stations weren't aware of the tide. So they forgot to near the lock gates along the Tolly's nullah prior to tide hit at 4pm.
Similarly, hurricane water took hours to recede in one of the vital traditional waterlogging wallet in the north. While the waterlogging at Manicktala could be commonplace as the realm skilled heavy rains in brief period, others got waterlogged as some civic officials failed to act on time.
"Timely motion, including operation of pumps and clearing chocked gully pits, will have saved these spaces from inundation," conceded a KMC drainage department official. Bidhan Sarani Avijit Ghosh is concerned: "The town's drainage network was improved in the previous few years so we did not witness such waterlogging. With the onset of monsoon this yr, we are holding our fingers crossed."
Babus forget to close lock gate; pockets flooded
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June 12, 2018
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