heavy showers that lashed the city on Thursday evening inundated many areas of the city. First heavy showers of the monsoon season wreaked havoc in several areas, including Garha, as knee-deep water gushed into main roads and people’s houses. The rainfall has also exposed tall claims of Jabalpur Municipal Corporation’s of ensuring pre-monsoon cleaning of drains and nullahs. The heavy downpour flooded almost all important roads and residential areas in the city.

 

To see the ground realities, State Public Works Department Minister Rakesh Singh visited waterlogged areas amid rains. He called Jabalpur Municipal Corporation’s officials to the site and instructed them to provide immediate relief to the denizens and find a permanent solution to the problem. The PWD Minister also discussed the issue with the local residents and assured them of a permanent solution. People informed him that this was a consistent problem. Minister Singh instructed the officials to find a permanent solution to the issue. He stated that although the problem has persisted for many years, efforts will be made to ensure a permanent solution, so that residents do not face such problems in the future.

 

After attending a meeting with citizens and party workers at the community hall in Ramlila Ground in Garha, Singh was to head to another meeting at Pachmatha Temple in Indira Gandhi Ward, but he received information about the waterlogging in many localities of Garha area. He immediately reached the site and walked through the knee-deep water to survey the area. The flood control room of the JMC received plethora of complaints about waterlogging in houses. Spokesman of control room informed that they received complaints from many parts Garha, Gupteshwar, Madan Mahal, Adhartal, Dhanwantari Nagar, Damoh Naka, Medical etc.