Monday, September 8, 2008

Heavy Rains Paralyse Hyderabad

I started from Banjara Hills towards Seethaphalmandi. Till ErraManjil traffic was normal and moving. After some movement i observed that Traffic Police took shelter far away from signals and vehicles zigzagged across roads. Even i didn't bother to care about following traffic guidelines as it might be foolishness to follow and moved in my way. When i reached khairtabad rains were not that heavy, but vehicles were moving at Snail's pace.

I moved towards lakdikapool , telugu talli fly over and then via khawatiguda. Roads are flooded and all vehicles were almost blocked and any vehicle could hardly move an inch. 4 feet of water made roads look like river. I travel via this very road regulary and i know how many hurdles i have to cross in a normal sunny day. Imagine the hell when the water is about 4 feet on this road. I was going mental and at the same time doing some mental calculations about how to overcome this traffic mess.

The only thing GHMC do when heavy rains lashes hyderabad is opening the manhole. I really wonder if this is a manhole or small hole, when i see 4 feet water flooding on roads. If the government is really calculating, there were many deaths due to these open man holes few years back. Few questions were always left unanswered

-> every now and then heavy rains lash roads and there will be no mitigation plan from GHMC
-> where are traffic police? and why signals are not working? They are monitoring. Guys you are supposed to regulate traffic, not monitor. I observed few civilians and shop keepers regulating traffic. Hats Off to these guys.
-> Why so many hurdles on roads? when are you going to level roads?
-> Why iron man holes? why not plastic?
-> Do you really care about ambulances during these rains?

Seems nothing bothers them. Work proactively guys. Oops what a greedy guy i am, when they are not reacting for rains, i am expecting them to work proactively. God only can help us from these lazy dumb officials.

See some pics of beautiful hyderabad roads -

6 comments:

ABHILASH SIDD said...

what is the name of area in the pics ?

Geethanjali said...

we cant blame the officials entirely for this mess.We never bother about such things when there are no rains.If anyone of us had given a thought to these problems before rainy season and approached the officials,they could have done something.(I dont say they will solve everything) The responsibility lies in our hands.

Sudhie said...

For the name of area, you can contact tv5 people :D because they are screen shots.

If i try to get down and take a pic at khawatiguda, then people there would have kicked my sldjflsdkfj

Sudhie said...

There are few things you can do and there are few things you can only write and talk. This incident is later category. When you say, it is in our hands, I would just think of sitting in home or office while raining

ABHILASH SIDD said...

@geethanjali

The very purpose of governance is to cater the needs the people.The GHMC oops HMDA is very much aware that rainy season is round the corner and having experiencing a series of events in hyderabad in regard to water logging ..I would say say its the responsibilty of GMDA.

You may say people should change...even i abide with it. Let the GMDA start penalizing people for the kind of garbage they put everywhere in the city and illegal constructions. Why do you think people are scared of traffic police and started using helmets ...just for the reason they are fined ..same way the HMDA should work on a similar plan so that people might change..even a commendable 2% change is appreciated.

geethanjali said...

Yes u r right
Laws should be made for us to be responsible