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Kolkata struggled to instrumentality to normalcy connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) arsenic respective areas, peculiarly Salt Lake and pockets of northbound and cardinal portion of the city, remained waterlogged, a time aft torrential rainfall near 10 radical dormant and threw beingness retired of cogwheel successful the metropolis.
The Met section has ruled retired dense rainfall successful the metropolis during the adjacent 24 hours, though it forecast mostly cloudy skies with airy to mean showers accompanied by thunder and gusty winds astatine immoderate places.
Water was pumped retired of low-lying areas of Kolkata and adjoining areas done the night, but residents of Bidhannagar continued to reel nether flooding, with vehicles moving astatine a snail’s gait and pedestrians forced to navigate inundated lanes.
To debar accidents, the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation kept thoroughfare lights switched disconnected connected Tuesday (September 23) evening.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had deferred her scheduled Durga Puja pandal inaugurations connected Tuesday (September 23) owed to the inclement weather, is expected to sojourn the marquees connected Wednesday, arsenic good arsenic motorboat a recently constructed occurrence presumption astatine Kalighat.
Officials said though floodwaters person started receding gradually, restoring mean beingness earlier the festive play remains the administration’s contiguous challenge.
The concern successful Kolkata and adjoining Districts volition beryllium intimately watched connected Wednesday (September 24) with much rainfall connected the radar, they said.
At slightest 10 radical were killed, 9 of them owed to electrocution, arsenic torrential overnight rainfall — among the heaviest successful astir 4 decades — near Kolkata and adjoining districts paralysed connected Tuesday, crippling air, obstruction and roadworthy transport, shutting acquisition institutions, and prompting the State authorities to beforehand Puja holidays.
The downpour — 251.4 mm successful little than 24 hours — was the highest since 1986 and sixth-highest single-day rainfall successful the past 137 years, lone down the grounds 369.6 mm successful 1978, 253 mm successful 1888, and 259.5 successful 1986.
It turned arterial roads into rivers, snapping Metro Rail and bid services, and throwing aerial question into disarray, arsenic the metropolis gasped for normalcy up of Bengal’s biggest festival — Durga Puja.
