Rain throws normal life out of gear in Tarn Taran district

Heavy rain in different parts of the district on Wednesday morning for about four hours affected normal life, specially school and college-going students and daily wage earners, throwing their daily routine into disarray.

Most villages in the district lack proper drainage and there were reports that ponds in the villages were overflowing. Filthy water along with single-use plastic bags entered the streets and roads besides farmers’ fields with the flow of water which caused problems for the people.

Daljit Singh Dialpur, Jaswinder Singh, Manjit Singh, Harinder Singh and other resident of Dialpur village said that the overflowing water in their village pond caused problems for the residents. Harinder Singh, a farmer, said that the filthy water of the pond entered his fields and the foul smell created inconvenience for him and other farmers in the area.

Normal traffic remained disrupted at the local Chabal-Amritsar bypass where knee-deep water accumulated. The problem has not seen a solution in the last about 10 years.

Rainwater had stagnated on the Tarn Taran-Goindwal Sahib road at Reshiana village on the Tarn Taran road in Chabal, Patti road in Bhikhiwind and in other parts in the district. However, there was no rain in the border township of Khemkaran, said Dilbag Singh Pattu, former president of the Nagar Panchayat. Prabhsimran Singh, an official of the Agriculture Department, said the rain was beneficial for the farmers as it was sufficient to water their paddy crop.