The Times of India 30.07.2012
Water supply, flight service hit
INDORE: Incessant rains in
the past 48 hours have covered up the rain deficit and have overshot
the last year's recorded rainfall. In the past 48 hours Indore has
recorded more than 10 inch of rainfall taking the recorded rainfall of
the city to 16 inch till July 29, which is 5 inch more than the previous
year. Met department officials say more rains in next 24 hours.
Continuous rainfall have brought a mix bag of happiness and worries for
the city. Water bodies, which supply water to the city had dried up due
to delay in monsoon, have now filled to the capacity ending water woes
of the city. But at the same time non-stop rains for the past two days
have thrown the normal life out of gear—flights are delayed,
water-logging on roads and in colonies and few areas of the city facing
power cuts due to uprooting of electric poles.
IMC control
rooms are flooded with calls of water-logging, uprooting of trees and
disruption of power supplies. Low-lying areas of the city are flooded
with rain water, around 60 colonies mostly in constituency I are
waterlogged, around 50 culverts and bridges are overflowing and
administration have to station police personnel at all these places to
stop people from crossing them.
Pradeep Sharma, a resident of
Palasia, said once again rains have exposed the poor civic
infrastructure of the city. Nullahs are over-flowing mainly because of
laxity in disilting works, colonies are waterlogged again as there is no
proper arrangement for flow of rain water. Patch work in a few month on
some major roads like AB Road and MG Road came off and there are
potholes all over again. Minakshi Gupta, a resident of Aerodrome Area
said she cannot even go out of her house due to water-logging. "They
immediately send notice for delay in payment of property and water
taxes, but they do not care to provide us civic amenities like drainage
and storm water line," said Gupta.
People are also facing
problem of cave in of roads, mainly due to delay in completion of
sewerage works which are going on for last one year.
The IMC
also swung into action and mayor Krishnamurari Moghe visited a few
waterlogged areas and called a review meeting. The mayor instructed
officials to take measures for cleaning nullah for clearing the way for
flow of water. To deal with any water-related diseases, officials have
been instructed to clear garbage from the road and spray insecticides at
all places. The mayor has asked officials to make arrangement for
instant clearing of water-logging and fixing drainage line to bring city
life back on track.
