Mumbai: Last year he went down to clean the gutter choking flooded the area and his house in Vasai.
This time 70 years Ashok Talajiya sat in the waters of the Ashwin Nagar complex flood for about one and a half hours after the rain water entered the ground floor house after rain on Sunday.
On Monday, Taljiya, who has not taken the dose of Covid-19 vaccination sitting in rain water starting at 2:30 p.m.
to 4 pm.
“I’m soaking soaked and feeling shivery but protest is needed,” said Talajiya, a cellular improvement, who lives with his wife, his son, a flat one bedroom since 2013.
Last yr he cleaned Nullah who entered his flat in Vasai.
On Monday Ashok Talajiya (70) Saturday and …
https://t.co/axuhahTuem- Sandhya Nair (@SandhyanaairTOI) 1626769772000IN 2017, following heavy rains in the Vasai-Virar area, the ground floor was flooded.
Talajiya who suffered losses of furniture and goods worth Rs 1,50 lakh, think that excessive rainfall has caused water to enter the flat.
The story was repeated in 2018, considering Talajiya.
“Toilets flood and waste water spread into the whole house.” While the other ground floor flats in the wing of ‘D’ also flooded, Taljiya was the worst blow because his house was located in the corner, closer to Nolah.
Talajiya said that as Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) did not clean the nullah choking, rain fell 30 minutes flooding the road and housing society.
Ashwin Nagar community.
Photo: Hanif Pateltalajiya sat in the flood water with placards, notifying the reasons for the protest, hanging around his neck.
Vehicles passed by flooded waters but did not prevent Talajiya, who came home, bathed, ate lunch, and went down to do their daily routine.
On July 5, 2020, when the water began to enter his house, Talajiya took his own task of cleaning Nullah using blank hands.
The videos cleaned Nullah had become viral.
Talajiya said that after the video went by a viral officer landing in his house.
“But the story repeatedly every year,” said Talajiya who was ‘invested’ in the Paver block to increase the height of his bed, refrigerator, cabinets and other furniture.
“Every paver block costs me Rs 30 but it is an investment.” Ashok Talajiya shows the paver block used to increase the height of his bed, fridge, cabinet.
Photo: Hanif Patelon Sunday night, when the flood water entered his house touching Paver Block, he panicked.
“I cannot continue to cause losses every rainy season,” Talajiya said, who personally submitted a complaint letter to VVMC on March 30, 2021 and April 28, 2021.
Talajiya said that the municipality needed to clean the nulta before the area so that the locality.
Not flooded.
This complex consists of 15 buildings.
He said that he took it on himself to protest as a resident of other buildings, including his own children busy with work.
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