Rain soaked Kolkata was limping back to near normal today after three days of heavy downpour due to a well marked low pressure over the Bay of Bengal that turned into a depression leaving 11 dead and over a lakhs of people marooned in eight districts of gangetic West Bengal.
KOLKATA: Rain soaked Kolkata was limping back to near normal today after three days of heavy downpour due to a well marked low pressure over the Bay of Bengal that turned into a depression leaving 11 dead and over a lakhs of people marooned in eight districts of gangetic West Bengal.
No significant rainfall was recorded till 8 am in the city, which received a record 205.6 mm of rain in last two days.
Most areas of the city remained heavily waterlogged in both northern and southern part, seriously disrupting road and rail traffic for the second day on Tuesday.
Train services in Howrah division of Eastern Railway and South Eastern Railway were seriously hit due to waterlogging in Tikiapara and Santragachi raily yards forcing the authorities to either cancel or divert a large number of long distance and local trains.
The situation was no better in Sealdah division where tracks were breached at several points.
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) sources said they have energised all their pumping stations to drain out all the accumulated water and the situation not expected to return to normal not before next 48 hours.
The Met office forecast heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours even as the depression had weakened and stated to be lying over north Chattisgarh.
Deaths were reported from South 24 Parganas (5), Bankura (4), one in the city and another from the districts due to house collapse, snake bite, or lightning, official sources said.
Flood situation had developed in East and West Midnapore district due to heavy rainfall coupled with heavy discharge from the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) reservoirs yesterday, sources said.
Hundred of villages were submerged in East and West Midnapore, Hooghly and Nadia district.
Official sources said that DVC was likely to discharge 1.10 lakh cusecs of water on Tuesday threatening to inundate more areas.
All the major rivers in North and South 24 Parganas are in a spate following the heavy rainfall and have also flooded vast areas.
The state government has sanctioned Rs eight crore for relief and restoration purpose and has set up a control room in the Writers Building (state secretariat) to monitor the situation.
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