Even after 12 hours, water has not receded in areas including Smart City Ahmedabad Pani-Pani, Western Thaltej, Bhopal. Even after 12 hours in Smart City Ahmedabad, water has not receded in Thalatej, Bhopal area of ​​the west

The rain had taken the entire Ahmedabad as a hostage, rain water was everywhere. People were going home praying to God that it would be better if they reach home safe now. Amid all this, people are believing that the corporation is responsible for all this misery. Because every time lakhs of crores of planning and the whole thing is thrown open in a single rain, Smart City Ahmedabad has become not really a smart city, but a city of woe. The rains that started on Friday evening became a disaster for the common people and its effects are still visible today. When there is still water in many parts of the city, how can Ahmedabad city be called a smart city, even though the people who rule it go abroad every now and then, but they don’t have much of it there. But Ahmedabad is experiencing an environment in which it does not seem appropriate to implement Rita Vata in Ahmedabad.

Satsati in Meghraja West on Friday evening
Universal rains are falling in the state. In Ahmedabad too, Meghraja deployed in the western region on Friday evening. Satellite, Jodhpur, Prahladnagar, Anandnagar area received 6.5 rainfall. Bhopal, Thaltej, SG Highway, Vastrapur area also received more than four inches of rain. Even though 18 hours have passed between Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)’s claims of pre-monsoon operations, water has not yet been drained from some places in the western areas of the city. Some areas of Thaltej, Bhopal, South Bhopal, Shela are still waterlogged. Due to which people are facing crisis. Premonsoon operation poles have opened in the West Zone, South West and North West Zones of Smart City.

Question on pre-monsoon operation of cleaning drains, catch pits
As part of the pre-monsoon operations by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation system, the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner level officials made big claims that the sewers, catch pits in the city were cleaned and all the pumps etc. of the Municipal Corporation system were ready. The polls were opened on Friday evening by the heavy rains that fell in just three hours in the western part of the city. Even after 18 hours after the rain stopped, many areas are still waterlogged. Locals in Aradhana Society in Bhopal area are bewildered. Due to water logging in the society, people have faced difficulties. This morning, children were disturbed on their way to school and work. Shela village and surrounding areas are flooded.

Families living in more than 300 bungalows in Shela are in trouble
More than 300 families of bungalows are in trouble due to knee-deep water in Samatwa bungalows at Shela. The main entrance of the society was flooded and people were shocked. Even the bungalows built at the cost of crores are flooded. Under Shantipura Bridge, the sewage has overflowed on both sides of the service road. Stinky water gushes from the manhole onto the road like a fountain. Pedestrians are forced to wade through sewage. It was also difficult to send the children to school.

Rainwater in Devanandan Society of Thalatej
Locals of Devanandan Society in Thaltej have been hit by rainwater. Even his society has not yet dried up. The society has about 700 houses with about 7 other societies. According to the residents, the water is not drained for two days, the elderly fall while leaving the house. For two-three days, the residents of the society cannot go out to shop or buy vegetables. Despite complaints to AMC, the problem persists for two years. Questions have been raised against the functioning of the drainage line work due to water flooding situation in the western area. On the road going from Bhopal to Thaltej, there is water inundation beyond Isro. Some motorists returned by U-turn, while some people’s vehicles were lost in the water.

3 underbridges of the city were opened at 4 pm
Parimal, Akhbarnagar and Makarba underbridges had to be opened for vehicular traffic at 4 am. All three underbridges were flooded for six hours. Areas including Thaltej, Bhopal, Bodakdev, South Bhopal, Shela Sarkhej are still flooded. Jodhpur, Prahladnagar, Sindhubhan, Nagar were flooded for five hours during the night due to which the citizens were disturbed. People were also disturbed due to the incidents of road subsidence. A car got stuck in the road on Science City Road while the tires of a truck stuck in the road on Rajpath Club Road as well.