Though a divison bench of the Patna high court headed by Justice Narayan Roy on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to get water drained out from all the localities of the state capital within next 24 hours yet a day later the scene is not much different.
The Court order came following complaints by lawyers that water-logging in Patna for last so many days has badly affected the life of the people and is likely to cause diseases. One of the complainants complained before the court that a sump house of the Bihar Raj Jal Parishad in Kankarbagh has not been working for the last about a decade.
Lawyers complained that the de-watering process was slow and that many localities have started stinking. School-children, old and infirm citizens and house-wives are facing extreme difficulty as their houses are still submerged in knee-deep water.
One of the lawyers complained that way back in 1997 the court asked the government to undertake a permanent solution to the perennial problem of water-logging in Kankarbagh and some of the adjoining localities, but in the last so many years the problem only got aggravated.
The urban development department through an affidavit on Wednesday conceded that water-logging persists in a large part of the city.
Source: The Bihar Times, 5th Oct.,2007
