It may sound strange that the engineers of different departments as well as those of IIT- ISM have failes to resolve the perennial waterlogging on four lane road near Ranibandh in Dhaiya locality.
Since last several days commuters continue to walk through knee deep water due to the waterlogging that according to locals has been caused not only due consecutive rains but discharge of water from ISM campus.
The attempt of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) officials to pump out the water has failed on every occasion and department waits rains to stop.
This has also causes flooding in houses of low lying areas of Mallick Basti ,Lahbani Basti and other nearby localities
The road has no drainage facility and those once existed either blocked or have been damaged and it appears that the road it self has become a drain. The problem has aggravated also because the road construction division has blocked one side of the road to raise the level of the road so that water flows to the low lying areas besides becoming problems for two wheelers auto and small car drivers.
Meanwhile, in view of the problem deputy commissioner Varun Ranjan has constituted a committee headed by the town commissioner along with executive engineer of the road construction division, traffic Dy SP and circle officer with a directive to workout for a permanent solution to this perennial problem . He told media persons that there are several issues related to this age old problem. We can’t drain water directly to the pond or stop water flow from the IIT(ISM) campus. Attempts to link the road drain to the drain near CIMFR too has problem due to natural slops. We are working on the technical feasibility of the solutions for a permanent solution, he added.