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AMC’s Poor planning of drainage mechanism ruins Durga Puja celebration in capital city : Resentment brews among public
TIWN Sep 29, 2017
AMC’s Poor planning of drainage mechanism ruins Durga Puja celebration in capital city : Resentment brews among public
PHOTO : Agartala City on Astami night. TIWN Pic Sep 29

AGARTALA, Sep 29 (TIWN): When cloudy weather, slight showers have already marred the Durga puja celebration, the AMC led corruption has fueled the irritation of common people further. A chaos had been created all over the City on Astami night when rain showered for half an hour led the common people to suffer heavily with knee level water. Durga Pandals had gone under water at Agartala with few splashes of rains on the evening of Maha-Astami. This was not a record level raining, neither it was a continuous rain but the corruption of AMC has finally ashamed Agartala’s Durga puja. In other subdivisions also rain was held but no place have faced similar fate as Agartala City. The fastest flooding zone of India is nowhere but at Tripura’s capital city Agartala.

Resentments have brewed among the common people, devotees as AMC’s garbage water has wet Durga puja’s new dresses. Unending suffering has hit the capital city on Maha-Astami evening. 

But problem is Tripura Govt has failed to understand the cause of floods at Agartala. From drainage system to river’s navigability all are in bad shape. In some places including Battala, Nagerjala also drains have turned invisible as they have gone under the soil.

 Question raises, whether this year with every rains people gone under chest level water, so by next year what will be the water level after rains. The rivers have totally lost its navigability but there is no attempt to recover the rivers, rather trees have been deforested for the sake of rubber plantation. AMC has not invested a single penny for the water logging problem’s solution leading mass suffering for the public.Resentment have brewed among the Agartala people seeing the condition of the City on Sunday morning.

Markets are disrupted, disruption has come in the movement of people----indeed a massive chaos everywhere.

The water-logging is nothing but a reflection of the corruption indulged by AMC in last few years.
During the Budget counter speech held on June 30, 2016, AMC Mayor Prafullajit Sinha placed vivid explanation about the expenditure from 2015 to 2016 and also placed the budget for the year 2016-17. During the budget counter speech he talked about various projects ongoing and also completed project among which Mayor claimed about the almost completion of JNNURM’s (Jawharlal Nehru Urban Development Mission) Rs. 102.22 crores, which was sanctioned for Storm Water Drainage system.

But in reality there is no sign of proper drainage yet arranged in Agartala city. With a few splash of rain the city dupes into water and water logging till waist, is very common for Agartala City.

Whereas West Bengal, Andra Pradesh, Gujrat, Maharasthra have completed the project long back in the year 2012, Tripura is suffering from water logging condition after every rain-splash.

 

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