Even five days after Amphan hit Kolkata literally raising parts of the city to ground power supply remained cut in many parts from Behala the south-eastern parts of the city to Santoshpur area leading people from housing complexes to descend on the streets demanding immediate restoration of power supply.
“We don’t have power and water for the past five days. We have patients in many houses. We have to preserve insulin and other medicines in our refrigerators and here the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation and the administration has failed to restore power supply,” said women at Prince Anwar Shah Road in South Kolkata even as the blockaded the boulevard.
Thousands of trees were uprooted in large parts of the metro city taking along with them power lines and cable connection.
Even as the Government looked helpless --- with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday telling the opposition to “cut my head if by doing that you can bring things back to normal” --- situation remained unchanged leading even a senior State Minister to attack the Kolkata Corporation wondering why adequatemeasures were not taken to ensure quick restoration of services.
“Reports of Amphan was given days in advance but why the people in charge of things failed to arrange adequate amount of manpower and instruments to handle the situation?” he asked.
Meanwhile Odisha Government on Monday sent in 30 teams to assist Bengal Government to clear the uprooted trees in Kolkata sources said. Five columns of army and 36 units of NDRF had already been working to bring things back to normal.