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| Jammu caught in deluge, civic bodies napping | | Monsoons trigger threats | | Early Times Report
Jammu, August 26: Since the unprecedented onslaught of monsoons has started showing its teeth, Jammu city too is seemingly caught into the vortex.
Besides extending some panicky moments few nights back presenting a Leh replica revisiting, the present scenario is no less horrifying with people finding the monsoon trends turning ominously fiery in Jammu.
The swelling clouds taking the skies overhead off and on and rain and thundershower splashing down heavily blanketing the entire city within the wink of the eye is catching people’s fancy about the incident not being of the routine nature as witnessed in the monsoons.
The trend is that the intermittent rains that begin generally early in the morning last for over 1-2 hour and throw life in the city out of gear. Following mild to heavy showers residents face a tough time with the major streets remaining waterlogged.
Not only the interior part of the city but also low lying areas in posh localities like Gandhinagar Nagar, Trikuta Nagar and Nanak Nagar remain flooded with rainwater. In the old city water logging causes a lot of inconvenience to commuters. The worst affected were residents and shopkeepers in Jewel Chowk where it took 6 to 8 hours for the rainwater to drain into the clogged sewers.
Some shopkeepers in the low lying areas of Talab Tillo open their shops in the afternoon. "Rainwater entered our shops today and it took more than one hour to clear it. We had no customers due to the rain", rued Vinay Budhiraja, a whole sale notebooks merchant in the Gol Pulli, Talab Tillo.
Besides, the major rue comes from the daily commuters who are exposed to fatal risks of the erratic digging done by the works department.
This has left many areas open inviting risk to life of the people.
“Haphazard digging of the roads left with open pot holes at various places in the city are death holes which can bring any fatality to anybody. school going kids are more exposed to such dangers which are death holes towards which the government is totally ignorant,’ lamented Vanita Baru, a housewife and mother of an eight year old son at New ployt, outside whose hoem is a open nallah inviting all risks to the lives of the young and old alike.
“And in rainy seasons, these holes and dug up caverns remain submerged with commuter and vehicle pliers remaining exposed to the risks,” said another
Vikas bhardwaj, a resident near Janipur , said intermittent rain threw normal life out of gear. "Due to the choked sewers rainwater that had accumulated on the streets couldn’t be drained. It had become impossible to send children to schools. The municipal corporation didn’t bother to clear the debris that impedes smooth flow of vehicular traffic. Residents had no option but to throw the debris into open drains, as a result of which all of them were blocked and rainwater couldn’t be drained for hours", rued Bhardwaj.
As the city remains inundated throughout, the tall claims of works departments and civic bodies too remain submerged. The deluge exposed the tall claims of the local civic body officials, who had been saying that the flood water drains would take care of the flood water.
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