--Woes of six-day rains over
BHUBANESWAR:
Finally, after six days’ incessant rains in the city and its outskirts, the sky
was cleared of thick clouds with the city dwellers witnessing the much awaited
sunshine on Monday. As low pressure area over north coastal Andhra Pradesh grew
weak, local Met officials said, climate will be normal from now onwards.
Due to the low pressure, the
capital city had witnessed heavy rains during last six days. The incessant rain
brought immense hardships for the city dwellers as overflowing drain water
gushed into their houses in the low-lying areas, besides creating waterlogging
at many places.
The unremitting rain had
literally paralysed the city and had forced the residents to stay indoors.
Vehicular movement was not thick like normal days. Roads were filled with rain
water. Many traffic posts were engulfed with water.
Rain water had entered into
various places and colonies of the city including Acharya Vihar, Uni-8, Ram
Mandir square, GGP Colony, Satabdi Vihar, Ashok Nagar, Rasulgarh, Laxmisagar,
Bomikhal, Station Bazaar square, Cuttack Road
and Old Bhubaneswar. Slum areas were badly affected in the heavy rain.
Situation of the villages on the
outskirts of the city had faced problems when the rain water entered into the
houses. Bharatpur, Kalajhari, Samantarapur and Bangali Sahi in Barang area,
apart from Ostapada and Tankapani road witnessed knee-dip water on village
roads connecting main roads. Even slum dwellers of Bharatpur under Chandaka
police limits had blocked the road protesting local corporators’ carelessness
and misbehaviour when they sought steps for draining out of water from the slum
area.
City witnessed heavy rainfall
starting from October 20 evening to October 27 and received record 568 mm
rainfall only within seven days which was the highest rainfall than last year.
Gradually normalcy is returning
everywhere as water has been receding, but the problems faced by the
city-dwellers exposed the failure of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA)
and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in draining out water in a planned
way.
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