Agartala,
Sep 16: Tripura government constituted an expert team to find out the
remedial measures to manage water-logging and flash flood situation of Agartala
even with moderate rainfall. The Urban Development Minister Manik Dey today
admitted that there were problems with drainage system of Agartala city that
caused rain waters to stand for days, which was established in five occasions
in past one month and left lives out of gear. He however, claimed high
intensity rainfall in this monsoon had caused tributaries and distributaries of
river Haora swelled beyond usual. parts of Agartala city south of river Haora
were severely hit by the flood water. Houses in north of Kathakhal canal were
inundated by the flood besides, two other sewerage canals due to blockades of
plastic wastes and other non-degradable items. “Moreover, because of weak solid
waste management of Agartala municipal council, the people and small traders
disposing wastes in the storm water drains that has been preventing flow of
sewerage; ultimately inundated some low-lying areas of the city,” Dey admitted.
He tried desperately to defend the failure of municipal authority and his
government of unplanned growth of Agartala saying that such issues were common
in bigger cities like New Delhi or Mumbai and added, “We are having 11 water
suction pumps to evacuate waters from the city streets. But the excessive load
caused them to work slowly too. Besides, the drains have their upper limit of
drainage potential.” The minister today put up a strong defence against the
accusation that covering up all drains of the city interrupted proper
evacuation of flood water. If the drains were indeed clogged as some people
have claimed, it would have been impossible to drain the water despite all the
pumps, Dey claimed. UNI
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