Despite various initiatives water-logging still causes immense sufferings to the residents of the port city in most of the areas especially during the rainy reason.
\nThe dwellers of low-lying Bakalia, Chaktai, Chawkbazar, Bahaddarhat and Khatoonganj areas are the worst sufferers of this problem. Even after\u00a0 moderate\u00a0 shower, rainwater inundates all the\u00a0roads and submerges ground floors of\u00a0 many dwelling houses, shops , educational institutions and other establishements of these places, locals complained.
\nThey blamed their woes on the\u00a0 poor and defective drainage system in the city. Though the drains and canals including the Chaktai\u00a0 have been excavated and re-excavated several\u00a0\u00a0 times in the past the problem of water-logging\u00a0 still persists to the sufferings of the people. The efforts of the government, Chittagong City Corporation and\u00a0 the Chittagong Development Authority to reform\u00a0 the Chaktai canal, the city’s main water carrying outlet, have not been able to solve the water-logging problem fully. Throwing of garbage indiscriminately, building of infrastructures on both\u00a0 sides of this and other canals and bamboo pilings haphazardly for various purposes have narrowed down the breadth of the canals obstructing the normal flow of rain\u00a0 and waste water, according to them.
\nThe inhabitants of\u00a0 most of the areas of the port city are apprehending that the problem will assume a serious proportion when the monsoon will start in full swing\u00a0 and it is not far off. They called upon the concerned authorities to take\u00a0\u00a0 adequate preparations to address this menace.<\/p>\n

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Despite various initiatives water-logging still causes immense sufferings to the residents of the port city in most of the areas especially during the rainy reason. The dwellers of low-lying Bakalia, Chaktai, Chawkbazar, Bahaddarhat and Khatoonganj areas are the worst sufferers of this problem. Even after\u00a0 moderate\u00a0 shower, rainwater inundates all the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n