Kolkata: When Mumbai went under water after heavy rain this July, many in Kolkata wondered if the city headed in the same way.
However, it has been flooded several times this Monsun.
Just like the river and Marshlands have disappeared in Mumbai, so have a pool and waterbodi in Kolkata.
The city has lost almost half of the water body in the past three decades.
While Kolkata has around 8,700 water bodies around the late 80s, there are only around 3,500 now.
The pool was abundant in some parts Behala until the mid-1990s had disappeared.
The water body disappeared has caused airlogging with an area that did not witness any puddles now submerged for days during the rainy season.
According to Bim Roychowdhury, a retired government officer and a Sarsuna resident who had started from the charging of the pool, the amount of pressure that must be held by an activist in protecting the pool, the more difficult for him to continue his movements.
“Often we are exposed to lodging with complaints with police or civilian government.
In the absence of strict action, the land of Mafia threatens us with terrible consequences.
How many of us can continue by saving the pool movement in the middle of the threat and lack of action from the administration? “He wondered.
The Mohit Ray environment that conducted research on the pond disappeared said the actual water body in Kolkata was unclear but the city’s detailed map book containing 284 plates by national Atlas & the thematic mapping organization showed it to 8,731 around 15-20 years ago.
Google satellite imagery from Kolkata shows that it is 4,889 in 2006.
That number is increasingly cut into around 3,500 now.
Golf Garden is another area that was disturbed by waterlogging after the pool was filled for about two decades ago.
A member of the Public NGO was contacted at Golf Garden for protesting the charging of the pool.
Even though he had submitted FIR, he pulled him after two rival political parties held a separate demonstration in his environment who denounced him.
According to Nirmal Ghosh, residents of Golf Garden and IT officials, regional residents on several occasions have filed complaints from a large number of pools in Azadgarh, Golf Garden, Bijygerh, Baghetratin, and Jadavpur.
“Even though it shows a susceptible pond that the soil sharks have targeted to the local police station or KMC office, we cannot save this pool from filled out.
The results are clear.
In addition to the increase in air pollution, we also carry a burden on water misery,” Ghosh said.
The area along bypass em also watched waterlogging after the loss of waste farms and agricultural land on the wetlands of East Kolkata.
The change seen between the 2002 satellite map of EKW and the 2016 map is “dramatic” and clearly shows the level of encroachment and massive repentance, which threatens the existence of the Ramsar site.
Some of the 37 moujas have witnessed encroachment on a large-scale that barely looks like wetlands now.
Various gray and chocolate nuances dominate Pashchim Chowbhaga, Nonalanga, Chowbhaga, Ragation, Mukundapur, Athara, Kulberia, Beyga, Thakdari, Dhapa Manpur and Garai, showed a rampant construction after filling out and converting fish farms fed.
The KMC Ministry of Environment officials acknowledged that the pond in the forest of 44 kmc in the areas added to then disappeared with alarming regularity despite the efforts of the civil body to protect them.
“This is a matter of regret that we have failed to protect the pond in additional areas such as park range, Behala, Tollygunge Jadavpur and a large area located in Em Bypass,” said the official.