Patna District Magistrate Jitendra Kumar Sinha and Mayor Sanjay Kumar once again surveyed affected areas and issued orders like spraying more bleaching powder to prevent mosquitoes from breeding and to ensure doctors were available at all hours.

The administration's failure to get a grip on water-logging problem in Patna has given plenty of ammunition to the opposition leaders as well.

On Monday, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) activists pretended to 'plant' rice crop in front of Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi's partially submerged house in Rajendra Nagar in an attempt to lampoon his failure to free Patna from water-logging.

Patna schools to remain closed for two more days due to water-logging
The district administration on Sunday extended the closure of all the government and private schools of Patna for two more days on account of unprecedented water-logging in the state capital. Though the rainfall has come down considerably the administration was left with no other choice but to declare the school closed for Monday and Tuesday. Last week too all the schools were declared closed from Wednesday to Friday.

Though only one month of monsoon has passed the administration had to close the school for five days. Last monsoon schools were closed for seven days, most of them in August, due to water-logging. However, some of the schools, such as Patna Central School, had to be closed for one full month because of the water-logging in the entire Kankarbagh area.

The administration order to close down the school came when most of them were about to start the first term examination. And like last year there is fear that many of the schools may not be able to complete the Class-X course before the sent up for board examination.

The irony is that in the last five days, when the schools, have been declared closed, the rainfall has decreased considerably. Had the roads been clear children would have easily commuted to schools.