AGARTALA, May 11 (TIWN): People of Agartala face many problems as monsoon arrives. An issue that hassles the city every year is flooding as AMC (Agartala Municipal Corporation) planners yet to learn City planning. After dumb headed Prafullajit Sinha led AMC closed all drains by concrete cover, so it stopped cleaning of soil and garbage, in turn these chocked drains cannot carry water so water floods the streets.

There are 8 to10 points in the city where water-logging are a perennial problem during monsoon seasons triggering serious traffic jams and flooding in various localities. The resident of Agartala has been facing serious water-logging problems for the last few years. The situation gets worse during rainy season as they had to wade through at least knee- deep water. A spell of hour’s heavy rains had cause chaos in the city exposing civic bodies, lack of preparedness to address the problem of water-logging.

Though the areas gets flooded every year the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) does not seem to be coming up with any solutions leaving the residents angry and frustrated.

"We are continuously monitoring the situation of water logging and trying our best to resolve the problem at the earliest. Since these are non-peak hours, the damage caused is comparatively less," said an AMC official.

"There is no problem as such, it's a low lying area so water gets collected. But it's a temporary phenomenon," the official added.

It's a situation going from bad to worse, while no concrete steps are being taken to improve the drainage, the road repair work is being undertaken even after the monsoon has set in, which is adding to the resident's misery.

"Why is this work being done now and why couldn't it be done before the monsoon," questions, Ajit Saha a resident of the city.