Rain soaked Kolkata was limping back to near normal on Tuesday after three days of heavy downpour.
KOLKATA: Rain soaked Kolkata was limping back to near normal on Tuesday after three days of heavy downpour due to a well marked low pressure over the Bay of Bengal that turned into a depression leaving 11 dead and over a lakhs of people marooned in eight districts of West Bengal. No significant rainfall was recorded till 8 am in the city, which received a record 205.6 mm of rain in last two days.
Most areas of the city remained heavily waterlogged in both northern and southern part, seriously disrupting road and rail traffic for the second day today. Train services in Howrah division of Eastern Railway and South Eastern Railway were seriously hit due to waterlogging in Tikiapara and Santragachi raily yards forcing the authorities to either cancel or divert a large number of long distance and local trains.
The situation was no better in Sealdah division where tracks were breached at several points. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) sources said they have energised all their pumping stations to drain out all the accumulated water and the situation not expected to return to normal not before next 48 hours.