Heavy monsoon downpour paralysed normal life in Barisal city on Sunday. Barisal citizens faced torrential rainfall started from about 8:00 am and continued till 2:00 pm without any break.People demanded construction of town protection dam, excavating the canals and introducing sustainable scientific systems to solve water logging problem in the city.Met office recorded amount of rain fall as 129 milimeter from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm Sunday.The city-sky will remain cloudy with mid to heavy ranged raining and gusty wind with 15-20 Km per hour for next one or two days, local weather forecast told.Most of the people on Sunday became bound to confine themselves inside the room as roads and premises engulfed with logged water and transports became scarce on city roads demanding higher-fare from the passengers.Shops, houses on roadside, river and canal banks in different areas flooded with rain-water and tidal surge, after visiting the city areas found.Makeshift shops, hawker markets remained close in most of the parts of the day and kitchen markets facing very few customers as people not coming out from home without emergency needs.Water logging on city roads and low lying areas caused due to filling and grabbing canals, lack of proper drainage and sewerage system. Absence of town protection embankment caused sufferings to the people of low lying areas, alleged Barisal City Corporation mayor-elect Ahsan Habib Kamal.He assured to give top priority to solve water logging issue and constructing town protection embankment after taking charges.Filling broad and deep canals to construct narrow and shallow drains without maintaining standard scientific sewerage system and technology liable for water logging in the city even after every short downpour, said Dr. Mizanur Rahman, member secretary Barisal Nagorik Samaj.Failure to construct town protection embankment was causing sufferings of people at lowlying areas and river bank sides, Enayet Hossain Chowdhury, citizen rights activist said.Formation of low in the bay, arrival of monsoon air flow and attraction of immediate past full moon causing heavy downpours in the region and made conditions of river estuaries and sea were very rough with high waves and strong tides and gusty winds, said Prodip Kumar, officer of Kalapara weather radar station. -Our Correspondent
