GUWAHATI: Following a week of their coming of northeast monsoon from the country, Guwahati and its neighboring areas received heavy rain on Sunday night leading to many areas of this city becoming waterlogged.
As stated by the Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati East and also Guwahati town obtained 7 cm rain, which falls from the heavy rain group, between 8.30 am on Sunday into 8.30 am Monday.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has called heavy rainfall, followed by thunderstorms and lightning, over Guwahati along with other elements of Assam until June 18.
Heavy rain during the night caused by waterlogging in portions of Guwahati until Monday evening.
Commuters, drivers and pedestrians have been at a treatment as Rukminigaon — GS Road linking road, Keraikuch, Chandmari, Ambari and Hatigaon, amongst othersthat were submerged from knee to waist-deep H20.
City based-doctor Navanil Barua stated the downpour of the night made havoc in his flat as water in the hills together with slush entered on the campus, inundating the cellar with water and sand.
Afterwards, GMC officials promptly sent employees to help clean the wreck.
Generally, GMC must finish the de-silting of drains and waterbodies from the first week of May to ensure free flow of rainwater could be guaranteed prior to the onset of monsoons.
But sailors alleged cleaning and de-silting of those 300-plus drains beneath the GMC, the very first round of that ought to have been ideally completed immediately following Rongali Bihu in April, really took off just after the very first thick shower of the year.
A GMC official stated” A version code because of this three-phase meeting election that ended on April 6,’d stopped the job to de-silt stations before storms”