Waterlogging in a few areas after rain lashes Ludhiana

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 7

There was waterlogging in few areas after rain lashed city on Friday. Water accumulated at Feroze Gandhi Market, near Mini Secretariat, Chandar Nagar and a few other areas of the city due to which commuters faced inconvenience.

Members of the Feroze Gandhi Market Association have highlighted the issue of waterlogging multiple times before the civic body, but to no avail.

Chairman of the association, Col Harjap Singh (retd), said a parking lot opposite Ludhiana Improvement Trust’s office often gets flooded whenever it rained, but the Municipal Corporation did not take any action to find out a permanent solution to the problem.

“Earlier, there was a plan to set up multi-storey parking lot on this site, but the project could not be started. No steps have been taken to resolve the problem of waterlogging. Rainwater has accumulated here again today,” he said. Most of the city areas have no stormwater drainage system.

Commuters suffer on BRS Nagar stretch

Meanwhile, commuters faced problems on the BRS Nagar road that links Ferozepur and the Sunet area. As per the information, portions of the road were earlier dug up for the construction of gullies. These portions have not been repaired. Now, these portions of the road had started sinking after rainfall due to which commuters faced inconvenience.