Heavy rainfall
An empty four-storey building collapsed following a heavy rainfall in Mumbai. The building Gopal Bhavan, is situated in Mamlatdar Wadi in suburban Malad. Luckily, there were none living in the apartment as the residents had already been evacuated following the declaration of the structure as ‘dangerous‘ by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Sources say that five [...] Continue Reading »
Now the mayor is thinking in a right pace! After heavy rainfall has damaged the roads in Chennai, the municipality has plans of replacing to concrete roads in place of tar roads. Mayor feels that the common people are ignored when government is framing city infrastructure plans. So, also to create an awareness among the [...] Continue Reading »
Lakshadweep islands witnessed major property loss and damage due to heavy rainfall recently. Heavy rains lashed various places in Lakshadweep islands causing damage to properties estimating Rs 200 crore. A cargo vessel along with six people on board has been found missing. The eastern side of Kalpeni island has been affected the most, say experts. [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has failed deliberately in proving proper infrastructure for the city roads in Pune. Nearly 50 percent of the city roads stretched along the radius of 1,800 km are lacking storm water drain facilities. This came into the notice of city improvement committee (CIC) during the commence of heavy rainfall. Chairman of [...] Continue Reading »
The heavy downpour has left its remarks at Coimbatore low-lying areas wherein the residents in some areas are still struggling with waterlogging woes. Coimbatore Corporation officials however came to the rescue of these residents and restored normalcy in few of low-lying areas. Nearly 140 people are being accommodated at the city corporation schools as the [...] Continue Reading »
Not a single day the residents are free from all the civic woes, as the residents of Delhi should now again be well prepared to face prolonged power cuts. Road widening is yet to commence at Wazirabad Road Number 66. Power discom official reported saying that this process of road widening would cause major damage [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Chennai city are fed up with the bad maintenance of city roads, improper maintenance of drainage, over flowing garbage, tardy and bumpy roads, underground drainage, prolonged power cuts and many such. Finally the residents decided to voice out all these never attended and never ending civic problems to the concerned municipal officials. [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai will soon get drenched as the monsoons are fast approaching. The city has already experienced the south west monsoon and received somewhere around 780mm. This was much higher than what it usually receives. Since the north-east monsoon is fast approaching the Met department is expecting that the City will witness another heavy down pour. [...] Continue Reading »
As always Mumbai had to face the water logging problems after a heavy downpour recently. The city witnessed heavy rainfall on Wednesday evening in some parts of the city. Santa Cruz received as much as 57.8mm and this caused a lot of inconvenience to the areas near flyover. The rainfall also flooded the subways in places [...] Continue Reading »
The heavy rainfall at Varanasi lead to damaged roads in and around the city and the district administration has filed a petition for the allotment of Rs. 56.75 crores for restoration works. The budget will come under the Calamity Relief Fund (CRF) and will be forwarded to the relief commissioner in Lucknow. The petition was filed soon [...] Continue Reading »
