Torrential rain for the entire Sunday night time coupled with excessive tide drowned most elements of the city setting it out of tools at the morning of the primary day of the week. Adding extra woes to the state of affairs, the meteorological branch has anticipated more rains in most of the districts in south Bengal in the next 24 hours.
According to the meteorological branch there has been 132 mm of rain in Kolkata from 12 nighttime on Sunday until 7 a.M. On Monday. The department also stated that southern elements of the town which include Behala, Mominpur, Ekbalpur, Khidderpore, Kalighat obtained greater rains than the northern part of the city. In maximum of the locations in south Kolkata there was greater than one hundred mm of rain, waterlogging almost the whole part of south Kolkata.
On the opposite hand, areas like Ultadanga (eighty four mm), Maniktala (77 mm), Belgachia (82 mm) skilled comparatively much less rainfall on Sunday night. The heavy downpour threw the metropolis out of equipment and numerous regions inside the town mainly areas in vital and south Kolkata are below the water. Areas like Behala, MG Road, Park Circus, Park Street, Theatre Road, Shakespeare Sarani have been under knee deep water. People needed to go through the water to attain their operating locations.
"Yesterday the lock gates had been closed from 11 p.M. To a few p.M. And that has created all the waterlogging. Even today the lock gates might be closed from 10 p.M. To a few p.M. Due to high tide in Hooghly River. On Sunday the tide become as excessive as 17 toes and evidently we had to close the gates. The rain water couldn't be drained and this had led to waterlogging in several parts of the city. We have activated all the 384 pumps unfold across 73 pumping stations in Kolkata to drain the water out of the metropolis but it will take nearly six hours to clean the water," a senior authentic of Kolkata Municipal Corporation said.
Adding to the woes the weather branch has expected greater rains within the next 24 hours in maximum of the districts of South Bengal such as Kolkata because of low depression in Bay of Bengal.
According to the preliminary forecast there may be heavy to very heavy rainfall in most of the districts of South Bengal which includes Kolkata, South and North 24 Parganas, East and West Midnapore, Hooghly and Howrah for the following 24 hours. "The attention of the rain became high and we have no quit nature however we are doing everything so that the humans can continue with their each day sports however it'll make an effort," a member of the board of Kolkata Municipal Corporation said.
Former mayor and the chairman of the board of members of KMC Firhad Hakim has surveyed the complete situation and has asked all of the officers to paintings on battle-footing so that the water can be cleared as quickly as viable.
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