Heavy rains lash Hyderabad; locals plagued by overflowing drains, stinking sewage waste

Heavy rains lashed Hyderabad on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi on Friday. Heavy downpour in the city that continued today led to a flood-like situation in most places, choking traffic and inundating low-lying areas.

Waterlogging in most parts of the city has led to long traffic jams that commuters are having to put up with. The menace of overflowing drains and stinking sewage waste has again, as it does every year, returned to haunt residents and commuters. 

While the regional meteorological centre has predicted heavy rainfall for the third consecutive day tomorrow (i.e. Sunday) at isolated places in all districts of Telangana, Hyderabad till about 5.30 am today morning received 113.7 mm of rains.

Till 11 pm on Friday, the Malkajgiri division of the city received 92.8 mm of rain while Rangareddy division got 91.5 mm, Sangareddy division got 80.8 mm and Hyderabad division received 80.5 mm rain in the same period.

GHMC OFFICIALS SWING INTO ACTION

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials have swung into action and are looking at ways in which water stored in many places can be cleared off. Areas like Banjara Hills, Jubilee Hills, Kukatpally, Musheerabad, Narayanaguda and other places are the worst-affected.

Municipal officials with its emergency monsoon teams are trying to clear the stagnant water. Municipal administration minister K Tarak Rama Rao, along with Mayor Bonthu Rammohan, is continuously monitoring the situation.

Meanwhile, residents at Dharani Nagar in Alwyn X Colony of Hyderabad today woke up to find toxic waste from the Chemical industries of Jeedimetla industrial area flowing into the nearby canal. The GHMC has also launched an emergency number and requested citizens to call on 040-21111111 or dial 100 for any emergencies.

Source: IndiaToday