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Families successful Pandipparambu successful Division 30 of Thripunithura municipality person been surviving a nightmarish beingness owed to terrible waterlogging since the onset of the monsoon connected Friday (June 5, 2026), with immoderate forced to determination retired temporarily.
The dense overnight rainfall has lone worsened the situation, with h2o levels rising alternatively of receding and reaching genu tallness successful definite stretches connected Saturday (June 6, 2026). Municipal authorities property the occupation to a factual operation obstructing the drainage transmission that passes done a backstage spot successful the area.
“I tin hardly slumber astatine night, anxious astir h2o entering my home. Several families adjacent person already moved retired since the flooding began connected Friday morning. This was expected, and I had met the municipal caput aggregate times seeking a solution,” said Raju, an aged resident.
The locality had been prone to waterlogging for astir 22 years until alleviation came successful 2021 with the operation of a drainage system, erstwhile the contiguous municipal chairperson, P.L. Babu, was the part councillor. At the time, the spot proprietor done whose onshore the drainage passed had cooperated. However, helium aboriginal built a house, a operation of which blocked the drainage pipe, and sold the property.
“The municipal vice-chairperson, lasting committee chairpersons, and councillors requested the spot proprietor to region the operation obstructing the drainage, but successful vain. We person present sought ineligible sentiment connected however to tackle the issue, including pulling down the structure,” said Mr. Babu.
Meanwhile, the Thripunithura Rajanagari Union of Residents’ Associations (TRURA) has complained that waterlogging remains acute successful different parts of the municipality, including Pallipparambukavu, M.K.K. Nair Colony, Puthussery Nagar, Railway Station Road, the Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple-Vadakkekkotta Road, Pavankulangara, and Kaniyambura successful Eloor.
“TRURA archetypal launched a protestation against waterlogging successful areas on the occidental broadside of the railway presumption backmost successful 2006. Yet the concern remains unresolved, chiefly owed to constrictive drains. Thripunithura is blessed with h2o bodies specified arsenic Andhakara Thodu, the Poorna River, and Konothupuzha, each susceptible of accommodating stormwater. The occupation lies successful unscientific drainage systems that are incapable of facilitating the creaseless travel of h2o into these h2o bodies,” said V.P. Prasad, president of TRURA.
Mr. Babu, however, maintained that waterlogging successful the municipality is not arsenic terrible arsenic before, acknowledgment to pre-monsoon works. “We identified 42 accepted hotspots and addressed each of them, leaving lone a fewer recently affected areas, which volition besides beryllium resolved wrong a week. A elaborate task study (DPR) has besides been prepared for a broad drainage strategy to tackle waterlogging successful Vadakkekkotta, the Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple area, and the remainder of the town,” helium said.
