After water-logging the cleanest State Capital of the country was in a shambles, following heavy rainfall for the first time in the season, revealing the truth of ‘Second Cleanest City’ of the country, on Thursday.
The efforts by Mayor Alok Sharma and BMC Commissioner Avinash lavania were too little and too late for handling the situation which went out of control in the early morning hours.
The Mayor and BMC Commissioner remained at the control room only to witness uncontrolled situation helplessly.
However, claims of swift respond to the areas where problems were faced during rainfall were made but the ground reality for the Second Cleanest City of the country portrayed totally different scenario.
Few hours of rainfall in the state capital created chaos and disrupted the normal life of the state capital.
All the arrangements which are made to keep the city functioning smooth during the rainfall in the monsoon failed on Thursday after heavy rainfall lashed the state capital even after the monsoon which arrived with a delayed which the highest in the past one decade.
The usual scenes of water logging which are witnessed at few places were reported at several places and water logging in low lying areas prevailed with rare exceptions.
The worst affected parts of the Old city area Safia College road, Sindhi Colony square, Bhopal Talkies square, Bharat talkies square, Aishbagh, Kotra Sultanabad. More than a dozen colonies in Kolar were water logged in the morning.
The uncompleted construction of roads, drainage systems and nullah which were yet to be cleaned before monsoon created havoc.
Another inhumane face of BMC surfaced in which an employee went inside a main-hale to clean during the water logging situation and taking cognizance of the incident MPHRC issued notice to provide report on the inhumane working conditions violating humans rights of the employees of BMC.