PIX: Rajib Deb, member, mayor-in-council (drainage and sewerage) with Kolkata Municipal Corporation(KMC) commissioner Arnab Roy visiting Ballyganj pumping station for supervising the Ballyganj sump project work(bottom). A lock gate of Ballyganj pumping station. A woman wading through accumulated water in the subway in Dum Dum station. Worsening condition of a dyke in Hingalganj.
KOLKATA: A 55-year-old man died after being electrocuted soon after heavy rain lashed the city yesterday. Heavy shower threw normal life out of gear in Kolkata, North and South 24 Parganas and other parts of South Bengal.
Kesharmal Gupta (55) died after being electrocuted when he tried to save a woman and her child from touching a roadside feeder box of CESC that had gone under water around 11.45 a.m. The woman and her child were saved.
The average rainfall recorded in the city during the day was more than 100 mm. Around 160 mm rainfall was recorded in the Palmer Bridge pumping station area.
The mayor, Sovan Chatterjee, and Rajib Deb, member, mayor in council (drainage), visited the pumping stations and several waterlogged areas.
Areas surrounding Bagbazar, Shyambazar, Talla Park and Baranagar in north Kolkata and Topsia, Tiljala, Behala, Garden Reach and BBD Bag were flooded. There was waist deep water on several streets, lanes and by-lanes.
Several Dykes collapsed in Sunderbans areas. Cracks were found on the Dykes in Basanti, Gosaba, Sandeshkhali, Namkhana. Conditions of the several dykes in Sahebkhali, Ramapur, Schoolbari, Jagannath Ghat in Jogeshganj in Hingalganj area in North 24 Parganas are worsening villagers are apprehending collapse of those dykes any time.
Gopal Karmakar and Vijay Singh from Asian Front of Human Rights appealed to district magistrates of North and South 24 Parganas for taking initiative for repairing those dams.
