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Balasore flooding returns after heavy rain as residents blame blocked drains
Balasore flooding returns after heavy rain as residents blame blocked drains
Balasore town in Odisha went under water again on Wednesday evening as heavy rain returned, leaving streets including Congress Gali knee-deep in places, OdishaTV reported. It was the second such inundation inside…
Balasore town in Odisha went under water again on Wednesday evening as heavy rain returned, leaving streets including Congress Gali knee-deep in places, OdishaTV reported. It was the second such inundation inside three days, and residents said the latest downpour flooded homes, ruined belongings and left many unable to cook or reach food. Locals put the blame on buildings constructed over drainage channels, arguing that this construction chokes off the natural path stormwater would otherwise take out of the town, and said repeated visits by district officials had produced inspections but no fix. No one from the administration was quoted responding to these allegations in the report, and none of the claims about the drainage blockages has been independently checked.
Indian Opinion Analysis
A town flooding twice within three days, with families unable to prepare food, is plainly a real and recurring hardship, but the specific case against illegal construction and a passive district administration rests entirely on what residents told this one outlet, with no official reply or engineering assessment weighing in. The underlying, repeated waterlogging itself is not really in question here, only whether the blame residents assign for it should be taken as settled fact. An answer from Balasore's district administration, with its own account of drainage capacity or a repair timeline, is what would test the residents' version.
Source: OdishaTV
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