RAIPUR: RMC displayed quick action and resolved multiple problems by sending different teams to affected spots following the sudden storm that had hit the capital and other parts of the state on Saturday night.

While the citizens struggled with chaos amid storm, power cut, hailstorm and traffic jam, the management of the capital was badly affected. Hoardings and poles had fallen on roads and trees got uprooted. Incidents of fire were reported at 12 places in the capital which were brought under control by midnight. RMC was swift in the clean-up activity when more than 150 hoardings and posters posed hurdles for vehicles to move on the roads across the city. Kishan agrawal of Shankar Nagar area said that he had to wait for at least two and half hours due to an uprooted tree in the middle of the road. "But with the help of RMC workers and other citizens the work finished soon. Otherwise, it could have taken
whole night."

Another resident of Rawabhata, Suyash Choudhry said, "There was no power in the city for three hours and I thought it is going to be a dark night. Thanks to RMC's electricians, who were seen in many parts of the city repairing the lines, the power resumed at around 1am and we could sleep peacefully."

A cleaning drive continued late till Sunday. Corporation workers struggled with a few large trees which took the entire night to be cleared.

In another development, Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) in the previous financial year has collected revenue of Rs 61 crore, up by more than Rs 9 crore revenue collected in previous fiscal.

RMC commissioner, Taran Prakash Sinha said that it was with efficiency and proper strategy that the financial year's revenue collection went up. He also announced felicitation of revenue officer Arun Dubey and few other zonal revenue workers and officers.