KOLKATA: tens of thousands of people in Behala, Kidderpore and Ekbalpore happen to be stuck inside for more than 72 hours, however, also the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) high brass had no expectation to provide them on Saturday.
Actually, a sewerage and drainage area made it obvious even mild rain on Sunday or even Monday can spell more distress for locals in cluttered areas.
A strange delay in execution of a drainage improvement project underneath Kolkata Environment & Infrastructure Improvement Project (KEIIP) plot and obstructed Manikhali along with Churial canals, and two outfall stations which carry storm water from Behala neighbourhoods, are the main causes of its inundation.
But locals aren’t ready to get that the KMC’s logic.
Payel Kar, a Class XII student from Behala Rabindranagar with an ailing parent in the home, stated,”We don’t have any power or drinking water for a few days today.
After neighbors whined against waterlogging and electricity cuts, the electricity supply was revived for only one hour.
How can we live?” Based on S Kar, chairman of Shakuntala Park Housing Cooperative Society, the Sarsuna satellite township’s open sewer system has dropped for want of care.
“The outfall canals are obstructed because of encroachment and illegal structures, resulting in inundation during monsoon,” he explained.
With the whole neighbourhood staying under water, there’s fear of an epidemic of enteric diseases, said a KMC health department official.
The human anatomy has begun sending tanks into regions in Behala which are submerged.
Mohammed Sadhab, a gentleman out of Ekbalpore, hasn’t managed to leave home for 3 days because of waterlogging and needed to maintain his store closed.
He criticized the absence of a detailed drainage improvement program which can bring some relief each monsoon.
Jayanta Das, in Mukundapur’s Purvalok, stated,”I needed to take my spouse to get checkup in a nearby hospital.
But we have yet to be able to leave home because of this waterlogging outside”
Kol: No respite in sight for inundated Behala Region
