According to a proposal placed before the board of administrators three days ago, the civic body will lay an underground drainage pipeline that will connect Nayabad to Chak Garia drainage pumping station.
Many neighbourhoods along the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass south of the Anwar Shah Connector experience flooding several times every monsoon. The new plans will be a boon for them. But the larger problem — haphazard construction along the Bypass — remains and will be more difficult to solve.
Nayabad residents expressed their hope over the civic initiative. Chanchal Kar, a KMC official and a resident of Nayabad, said it was a long-standing demand of Nayabad residents to connect the neighbourhood to a better drainage network to save them from inundation. “We hope the drainage upgrade project will bring the much-awaited relief from waterlogging every monsoon,” Kar said.
According to a KMC official, the proposal was passed by the majority of the board members. “The necessary funds have been sanctioned and we look forward to implementing the project,” said a KMC official.
Besides Nayabad, residents of Mukundapur and Chhit Kalikapur will also benefit from a drainage pumping station built at Chhit Kalikapur which awaits inauguration on Sunday. According to a KMC official, the pumping station will ensure storm water recedes fast from large areas of Mukundapur and Chhit Kalikapur.
“Apart from locals, a large number of patients who wade through knee-deep or waist-deep water to visit several private hospitals in the Mukundapur locality every monsoon will also benefit when the pumping station starts functioning,” the official said.
Madhumita Ghosh, a resident of Mukundapur and a private firm employee, said, “Finally, steps are being taken to mitigate waterlogging woes in our neighbourhood. We hope to get the desired results next monsoon.”
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/drainage-upgrade-to-solve-bypass-waterlogging-issue/articleshow/87823263.cms
