Rain disrupts city life

Some areas lacking adequate storm drainage in Dhaka went under water due to day-long drizzling today, causing public suffering on the last week day, as traffic movement got slowed on the submerged roads.  

Green Road and parts of Mirpur, Sheorapar, Mohammadpur, Jatrabari, Shahjahanpur, Shantinagar, Khilgaon, Demra, Mohammadpur, Badda and elsewhere in the capital were inundated with rainwater with the ongoing monsoon downpour.

Luxurious residential areas like Bashundhara is also not exempted from the monsoon spell. Photo: Yara Khan/Facebook.

Knee-deep rainwater submerged the Green Road slowing the vehicular movement, said a commuter, Monika Roy.

Surendra Shekhar, a private job holder at Tejturi Bazaar, said that it took him an hour to travel to Green Road due to slow movement of vehicles on the water submerged road.     

“It took me one and half hours to get to Farmgate from Mohammadpur,” said Sabbir Ahmed, another commuter.   

Duty Forecasting Officer at Dhaka Met Office said that they recorded 79 millimeter rainfall in Dhaka city until 6:00pm today. It rained 12 millimeter during 6:00am and 12noon but the volume was 67 millimeter during noon to 6:00pm, he said.

According to Dhaka Wasa officials, the existing inadequate storm drainage has a capacity of disposing 20 millimeter rainfall at a time. It gets clogged for hours to recede if the rainfall volume exceeds 40 millimeter.