Varanasi: Varanasi Municipal Corporation’s pre-monsoon drain-cleaning drive has come under scrutiny as several parts of the city continue to face waterlogging after rainfall, despite the civic body claiming that 364 of the city’s 386 small and large drains were cleaned.Residents of Jaiprakash Nagar Colony in the Shivpurva locality submitted a memorandum to the municipal commissioner’s…
A patch of waterlogged road near Bhumkar chowk Pune: Heavy showers have left roads waterlogged, underpasses flooded, and traffic jams across the city, including Shivajinagar, Dattawadi, Rasta Peth, Kharadi, Baner, Hinjawadi and Wakad. The rainfall has also exposed yet another cost of poor urban infrastructure – a surge in commute pricing.While choked drains, tree falls…
Kanpur: The season’s first major monsoon downpour lashed Kanpur on Friday, dumping 99.8 mm of rain in barely two-and-a-half hours and exposing the Kanpur Municipal Corporation’s claims of cleaning and desilting drains and nullahs. While the showers brought much-needed relief from the scorching heat, they also triggered widespread waterlogging, traffic chaos, road cave-ins and wall…
The sector has frequent water pipeline damage, uncollected waste, poor infrastructure, including faulty sewer layouts Noida: Residents of Sector 3 in Greater Noida West expressed frustration over years of waiting for action on unresolved civic problems: broken roads, poor block connectivity, damaged boundary walls, drains uncleaned for nine months and severe waterlogging issues with no…
Dibrugarh: A brief but intense pre-monsoon rain on Sunday morning, for barely three hours, left Tinsukia town flooded, with knee-deep water inundating streets, localities and commercial areas.Rangagora Road, Chaliha Nagar, AT Road, Parbotia Road, Jyotinagar, Bordoloi Nagar, Court Tiniali, Borguri, Raja Ali Road, Thandagarh, Milanpally, Amrit Tamuly Road, VIP Road and West Sripuria were among…
A drain being cleaned in city’s Pandra area on Tuesday Ranchi: With the monsoon likely to reach the state by mid-June, the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has launched a preparedness drive across the city on a war footing.The civic body’s priority list includes desilting choked drains, constructing new ones, tree pruning and intensified fogging to…
