Kolkata: After the rain stopped on Tuesday morning, water began to recede from a variety of extendions in Kolkata.
But the opposite occurs in the new city and the pockets of salt lake with the surface of the water continue to increase even after it stops rain.
The bagjola channel that is crowded with water pumped into it flows back to the city.
Water tank aroused water level which rises in the housing complex, increases fear of water contamination.
NKDA must rush water tankers to several environments.
Most houses buy drinking water from the market.
The water level in the Bagjola canal which is usually at a 1.8 meter level has increased to 3.18 meters, triggering a crisis.
In the past, the maximum level of water was 2.5 meters.
Sukhobrishti, the largest housing complex in a new city, is under deep water.
“The situation is really terrible.
The water has permeated the elevator channel.
There are families with dialysis patients who have to navigate water to go to the hospital.
Because we depend on the delivery boy, which now refuses to come, many people are just stranded, “Sukhobristi said the secretary of the culture of the Battle Kanrar complex.
At Maple Hiland Woods, the situation is no different.
“Residents cannot move.
We try to pump water from complex basements but cannot do it because the road in front is flooded,” said Resident Kunal Dhar Sharma.
The fate of similar occupants in some complexes and cooperative apartments in the new city action area 1A, 1B and 1C.
Even residents who have lived in the cities of the exhibition for a decade now said they have never witnessed a situation like this.
Prolonged power cuts added to the tribulation of citizens, especially on a high increase in which the elevator does not work.
Deadly power utility supply to prevent electric shock.
In the complex that has no power reserves, the pump cannot be operated for the water crisis in the bathroom.
“We don’t have a power for 24 hours.
My cellphone battery was drained.
I drove in the car while recharging the phone,” said Samir Gupta, a resident of New Town Ce Block who is also the secretary of the brotherhood of the welfare of the new city residents.
Kaustav De, a resident of Blok Ba, wonders how new cities are claimed to be a smart city when basic drainage infrastructure is lacking.
“Water hasn’t receded even 12 hours after the rain stops.
Many have to buy drinking water from outside,” he said.
“We arrange about 150 of the 20-liter mineral water jars that residents in several areas purchased by paying because there is no electricity in their complex,” said Samaresh Das, Chairperson of New City Forum and News, umbrella organization), an umbrella organization (NTFN) , an umbrella organization forum population in the new city.
“We issued an advisor for all to pump the water stored from the underground reservoir where dirty water had entered.
The team of doctors is also ready.
We will provide free water cleaners from our medical centers,” said an NKDA official.
In Salt Lake, regional blocks such as HB, IA, FD, GD, AE and BF are still under water in Tuesday morning.
Workers at Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation also cleaned the drainage line shocked.
The BMC Administrator Board Chairman Krishna Chakraborty said the survey would be made to find out which place most witnessed this year’s waterlogging.
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