Chattogram Bureau :
Water logging makes the life of Chattogram City people miserable as the roads and low laying areas submerge during rainy seasons every year. As a result, water logging became one of the prime problems of the port city. Normal raining causes water logging in the low-lying areas in the city regularly. As a result, the city dwellers in the low-lying areas of Chittagong suffer.
The downpour often starts from night and continued making half of city submerged under water causing unbearable sufferings to the commuters and people of low lying areas.At the advent of rainy season, the city dwellers fear that the crisis of water logging will be severe in the current year than any other previous years as the regular dredging of cannels are yet to be completed.
During the down pour traffic jam almost blocked the city roads as maximum city roads went under knee high water in first 30 minutes of down pour. The areas went under water were Muradpur, 2 No. Gate, Chawkbazar, Bohaddarhat, Badurtala, Sirajuddowla Road, Agrabad CDA R/A, Bakaliya, Sholockbohor, Katalgonj, Halishahar and Dewanbazar.
Sources said, the five kilometres long Chaktai Khal had been filled up with hilly mud and sands rolled down from the upper side of the canal. As a result, the rainwater usually over-flow from the canal and drains.
