Panaji: Wisnu Family Arjun Kaskar in Guirim did not understand the difficulty of coming when the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD), Panaji, sounded an orange warning for Goa last week.
With rain pounding without stopping, water began to flow to his house.
The road, fields, low-plain area Guirir suddenly turned into a large water body.
Many locals find themselves stranded in their homes, with a little use canoe as transportation from Guirim.
But some like Kaskar showed a double punch.
Not only the flood of his house, the rice he sowed was also mostly the possibility of being destroyed, something that would be confirmed only once the water subsided.
With the IMD expecting heavy rainfall until July 23, it seems that Guirir residents have a long struggle in front of them.
“I lost part of my house at first for the work expansion work and now water flows into my home during the rainy season.
We have never witnessed this before in our lives.
This flood has begun only after the highway expansion work starts.
Our plants are also , really sinks.
How a man is poor like me to survive, “Wisnu said.
He said the pipe was installed during the highway expansion work to drain water clogged with bottles and other waste, which had caused flooding.
Last week, during inspections, the minister of Chairman of Sawant Pramod himself acknowledged that the flood was a ‘man-made disaster’ and had directed WRD to demand Nullah.
But PWD, where the expansion of the highway expansion is being carried out, it will not be released lightly, said the residents of Guirim.
“When the highway expansion work began in 2017, Porvorim Mla Rohan Khaunte and Saligao Mla Jayesh Salgaonkar was the minister and I had written to them urging them to check the work of the highway.
The culverts were buried.
In their place, a narrow pipe has been installed Enough to flow out.
Today, even these pipes are clogged, as a result of what we face the floods like before, “said the Panchayat Sangolda member, Premanand Kotrekar.
Government High School, Namoshi, Guirim, also flooded.
The school structure also suffered damage caused by heavy rain.
“We have been asked to raise the highway level of five to six inches,” said a PWD official.