A few hours rain caused havoc at many
areas of the state capital. Realisation
is yet to dawn in the minds of the city dwellers. Nullah and drains are up for grabbing. Land grabbing spree by roadside dwellers showing least concern what it will bring has left all in a mess. Shamelessly houses are constructed encroaching upon nullah without leaving space even for parking their own vehicles. These shameless dwellers have made the lanes and by-lanes too narrow. No truck can be driven in such lane. In the event of occurrence of fire no fire service vehicle will be able to ply on such road. The houses will have to be left to reduce to cinders. We talk of town planning without thinking what we can contribute when such plan is launched. A proper town planning will require proper drainage system. Will we readily agree to hand over the land that we had encroached upon? Funny things are happening at many places of the state capital. As the trucks cannot be driven on such tiny lanes construction materials are taken to the destination by rickshaw or auto rickshaw. Flash flood that occurred in many parts of the state capital as the fall out of a few hours rainfall was caused by absence of proper drainage system. Flood water remained stagnant like water in the ponds. A survey needs to be carried out to identify the areas, which are prone to a few hours rain. Such type of flood was not seen one or two decades back. But all these things will be forgotten once the rainy season is over. The other factors that attribute to raising the level of nullah is dropping of unwanted sands discarded by builders into the channel. Has anybody seen anyone picking up the sands accumulated in the nullah? Deepening or widening of nullah can be done; the cooperation of all is required. If the flash flood reached the level of porch this year in future after 10 years it will reach the level of eaves. This is one problem, which the concerned authority will find handicapped in tackling. Therefore city dwellers when they construct a house they should keep in mind the need for keeping the nullah wide and also not to drop sands and pebbles into it. Until realisation dawns in the minds of all we will continue to see the flash flood of this nature in the years to come.
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