Rain leads to flooding in several areas of Ludhiana

Harshraj Singh

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 8

As rainfall lashed the city on Saturday, waterlogging occurred in various parts of the city, causing a lot of inconvenience to people. The rainfall also exposed ‘shabby’ road works as the recently recarpeted road started peeling off.

Tree falls on 2 students riding two-wheeler

• High velocity winds hit the city on Saturday. Two students were injured when a huge branch of tree fell on them while riding a two-wheeler on the PAU campus on Saturday.
• According to information, a huge branch of a tree fell on two girl students, who were going on a two-wheeler towards their hoste on the PAU campus. The girls were students of BVSc, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, and were passing near Khush Laboratory when the incident happened.
• One student is admitted to a hospital since she got her leg fractured. The other student has also suffered injuries.

The School of Climate Change and Agricultural Meteorology of PAU recorded 63.2 mm rainfall till 2:30 pm on Saturday. The rainfall, however, continued till evening.

The tall claims are being made by the MC and politicians to make Ludhiana a smart city but nothing has been done to resolve the waterlogging problem in many parts of the city. The departments concerned even failed to ensure good quality road works.

Today, waterlogging occurred at various locations on Ferozepur Road, National Highway 44 (Ludhiana-Delhi stretch), Gill Road, Link Road and other roads in the city. Also, the residents complained about waterlogging in Sector 39, Hambran Road, Haibowal Road, Ghumar Mandi, Dugri Road, Lodhi Club Road turn, Dhandari Khurd, Chaura Bazar, old city parts and several other areas.

Meanwhile, residents suffered as sewage badly overflowed on Panj Peer Road and main Chandigarh Road near Police Colony Chowk.

A resident of Panj Peer Road said, “The MC failed to resolve the problem of overflowing sewage on Panj Peer Road. We have been left to suffer when it rains even for a short period.”

Prem Singh of Sector 39 on Chandigarh Road said, “I had been making efforts to contact the ward councillor and MLA concerned but nobody came to hear our voice.”

A former councillor, Parminder Mehta, said, “At a number of sites, the sewerage manholes had been covered with bitumen recently. The sewer men faced difficulties in opening such manholes.”

Small potholes have appeared on some points on Pakhowal Road that was recarpeted recently during the winter season. As per the information, recently recarpeted Model Town Road and Bajwa Nagar Road, opposite Basti Jodhewal, started peeling off.

Besides, the MC failed to carry out repair of potholes on roads. The commuters were a harried lot due to badly broken Dugri Road near police station. The commuters also suffered on broken Chandar Nagar, Ishmeet Singh Road and other roads. MC employees were seen filling potholes with soil near the old Lakkar Bazar area.

A portion of South City Road has also got damaged. The department concerned deployed the staff for its repair this morning.

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