If not any part of the city, the Kalshi Road at Pallabi, as usual, experienced the season's first bout of water-logging following a half-an-hour long showers on Saturday afternoon.
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has recently cleaned all the pits of an underground drain that runs along the Kalshi Road. Since the said drain is clogged with dirt and silt across its length and breadth because of long neglect, rainwater cannot pass through the pits and keep most of the road waterlogged for hours together.
The Kalshi Road is now being rebuilt as part of a Matikata-Mirpur DOHS-Kalshi flyover project. The flyover when completed would ease the movement of huge traffic through the Kalshi Road. But the objective behind constructing the flyover would be largely unmet, at least, during the monsoon if appropriate measures are not taken to drain out rainwater. Vehicles will remain stranded after climbing down the flyover.
Residents, who suffer most because of waterlogging, expressed their surprise at the lack of understanding of the problem on the part of DNCC engineers and relevant others. They said a bypass drain, built a couple of years back, has ensured the diversion of rain and wastewater to the nearby Bhasantek beel. It should not be a big deal for the DNCC people to make the rainwater flow into the bypass drain, they added.
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