On Tuesday, traffic policemen themselves had to clear sewage to avoid slow movement of vehicles around Ejipura Junction.
To manage traffic in Bangalore, the traffic police have to deal with not only the rush of vehicles, but also with gushing sewage from manholes. One such incident took place on Tuesday morning, where traffic policemen themselves had to clear sewage to avoid slow movement of vehicles around Ejipura Junction.
Traffic policemen on duty noticed about 8 am that sewage was overflowing from a manhole near the junction, hampering the flow of vehicles. They immediately informed the BWSSB. The police said two BWSSB officials arrived about 9 am and assessed the problem. They left soon, saying the water board would send men shortly to attend to the problem.
The traffic police kept waiting, but to no avail. With traffic flow high, that being the peak rush hour, the overflowing sewage was affecting the movement of vehicles. After waiting for about 30 minutes, the policemen decided to do something about the problem.
Adugodi traffic police inspector L Vidyananda Tejaswi hired a few labourers to remove the sewage from the manhole. Traffic policemen joined the labourers to ensure the work took minimal time.
Tejaswi said it took them and the labourers more than two hours to remove the overflowing sewage. The BWSSB employees arrived with the sucking machine only at 11.30 am, but by then the police team had already done the needful with the labourers.
Deputy commissioner of police (traffic-West) Lokesh Kumar said the delay in the arrival of the BWSSB employees caused traffic snarls at the junction, which is one of the busier ones in the city.
He said the civic authorities should be swift in attending to such problems as they affect the common man.
Responding to the question over the BWSSB employees’ delay in reaching Ejipura Junction, the water board’s engineer-in-chief T Venkataraju said probably the water-sucking machine was far from the place when they received a call about the overflow.
He said the BWSSB would ensure that in future, water-sucking machine swiftly reaches the area from where overflow is reported.
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