BATHINDA/AMBALA/PATIALA: Heavy rains threw standard lifestyles out of substances in lots of parts of Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday, with key cities final waterlogged.
According to the meteorological division, Karnal town recorded 55.8mm rainfall, Bathinda 45mm, Patiala 49.4mm, Kurukshetra 38mm, Ambala 26.9mm, Amritsar 10.3mm and Ludhiana 10.1mm. There was once now not a lot rain in Jalandhar and its adjacent spaces.
In Bathinda, there was once flood-like scenario in Sirki Bazaar house, whilst the civil station house, where flats of deputy commissioner and SSP are positioned, too had knee deep water. The accrued rain water was once still there until overdue in the night time. Passersby needed to plow through knee deep water on roads at power space and civil strains spaces. “We may just now not open our business institutions due to rain water. It was once a difficult task attaining my store due to flood-like scenario out there,” said Arvind Kumar, who has a store in Sirki Bazaar.
“The sewerage machine in Bathinda stays misguided and we have been witnessing flood like scenario 12 months after 12 months for the ultimate 20 years or so. This time too, pumping of water appears to be very sluggish,” grumbles any other Bathinda resident Kulwant Kumar.
Bathinda mayor Balwant Rai Nath said, “We are looking to pump out the rain water from many spaces and hope it is going to be accomplished soon.”
In Ambala town. spaces like Agrasen Chowk, Palika Vihar and Cloth Market remained waterlogging. In the new past, officials of the native administration have claimed that they had wiped clean the entire drainages in the region. A ground truth check by means of a TOI staff revealed a special picture — maximum spaces in the town have been waterlogged.
Every week back, state health minister Anil Vij had additionally expressed his dissatisfaction over the cleaning paintings of drainages and ordered the district officials to hurry up the paintings.
In Patiala, too, a large number of spaces remained waterlogging, exposing the corporation’s failure to care for the flood-like scenario there. Many spaces, including Anand Nagar, Mata Kaushalya Hospital, Chandni Chowk to Nabha Gate, Model Town, Lehal, Sewak Colony, Chuhia Mal Trust, and e book marketplace remained beneath water.
The MC officials, alternatively, claimed that around 80% paintings to clean the sewerage was once accomplished. Notably, over the previous few years, the administration has been disbursing the sewerage water into seasonal drains. However, the drains are neither wiped clean and de-silted.
In 2004, to curb rain casualties and disease, the federal government had coated the 18feet wide Jacob drain with a concrete sheet. The cleaning of the drain was once began from Mohindra College, where it was once completely blocked, to learn around 29 colonies positioned around the Patiala town.
Patiala Municipal Corporation joint commissioner Ankur Mohindru said, “The cleaning of the sewer strains has been accomplished with the assistance of tremendous suction machines, whilst most effective 20% paintings remains to be finished. Work to clean the drains has additionally been began. In comparability to ultimate a number of years, we have advanced the placement so much and one can assess this from the water tired out in very less time.”
According to the meteorological division, Karnal town recorded 55.8mm rainfall, Bathinda 45mm, Patiala 49.4mm, Kurukshetra 38mm, Ambala 26.9mm, Amritsar 10.3mm and Ludhiana 10.1mm. There was once now not a lot rain in Jalandhar and its adjacent spaces.
In Bathinda, there was once flood-like scenario in Sirki Bazaar house, whilst the civil station house, where flats of deputy commissioner and SSP are positioned, too had knee deep water. The accrued rain water was once still there until overdue in the night time. Passersby needed to plow through knee deep water on roads at power space and civil strains spaces. “We may just now not open our business institutions due to rain water. It was once a difficult task attaining my store due to flood-like scenario out there,” said Arvind Kumar, who has a store in Sirki Bazaar.
“The sewerage machine in Bathinda stays misguided and we have been witnessing flood like scenario 12 months after 12 months for the ultimate 20 years or so. This time too, pumping of water appears to be very sluggish,” grumbles any other Bathinda resident Kulwant Kumar.
Bathinda mayor Balwant Rai Nath said, “We are looking to pump out the rain water from many spaces and hope it is going to be accomplished soon.”
In Ambala town. spaces like Agrasen Chowk, Palika Vihar and Cloth Market remained waterlogging. In the new past, officials of the native administration have claimed that they had wiped clean the entire drainages in the region. A ground truth check by means of a TOI staff revealed a special picture — maximum spaces in the town have been waterlogged.
Every week back, state health minister Anil Vij had additionally expressed his dissatisfaction over the cleaning paintings of drainages and ordered the district officials to hurry up the paintings.
In Patiala, too, a large number of spaces remained waterlogging, exposing the corporation’s failure to care for the flood-like scenario there. Many spaces, including Anand Nagar, Mata Kaushalya Hospital, Chandni Chowk to Nabha Gate, Model Town, Lehal, Sewak Colony, Chuhia Mal Trust, and e book marketplace remained beneath water.
The MC officials, alternatively, claimed that around 80% paintings to clean the sewerage was once accomplished. Notably, over the previous few years, the administration has been disbursing the sewerage water into seasonal drains. However, the drains are neither wiped clean and de-silted.
In 2004, to curb rain casualties and disease, the federal government had coated the 18feet wide Jacob drain with a concrete sheet. The cleaning of the drain was once began from Mohindra College, where it was once completely blocked, to learn around 29 colonies positioned around the Patiala town.
Patiala Municipal Corporation joint commissioner Ankur Mohindru said, “The cleaning of the sewer strains has been accomplished with the assistance of tremendous suction machines, whilst most effective 20% paintings remains to be finished. Work to clean the drains has additionally been began. In comparability to ultimate a number of years, we have advanced the placement so much and one can assess this from the water tired out in very less time.”
Rain catches civic bodies off guard
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