Rain rain so much rain but where is the drain? The master-drainage?

Collegiate school can teach swimming today, boats can sail in Sonai Road today, one can do some fishing in National Highway, ambulance might need a propeller to reach Silchar Medical College today and Shillongpatty, Ambicapatty, Malugram can be a reservoir for the entire Barak Valley. However sarcastic one might try to be nothing explains or justifies the sheer crisis Barak Valley in general and Silchar in particular goes through everytime the rain god showers his blessings.

Just to make it clear it rained for a night and the city is already afloat. Here comes the questions that every taxpayer deserves an answer to, where are the drains?

BJP ran an exhaustive political campaign with drains in the centre of it. Three years since the party came into power in Assam and an overnight rain has created havoc. While before the monsoon the administration did clean up drains which stayed blocked for years but now look like few and far. People widely criticised the administration for the trouble they suffer every now and then. “Today I was passing Ramanuj College and there was knee length water. The water being dirty and I felt really uncomfortable walking through it,” says an 18 year old. It maybe mentioned that the Ramanuj College remained open today though a significant part of the college area and beyond was water logged. Students took rickshaws to reach the campus.

BJP charted a master-drainage plan and then sold it as a masterpiece to the people of Barak Valley. The plan looked very good on paper and filled the Valley with perfume of hope. Cut to 2018, MLA and the former Deputy Speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly Dilip Paul gets up on a stage and announces that the master drainage is nowhere close to the finishing line and will take at least two years.

The weather report has warned of heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms for the upcoming few days. So Silcharians get ready for some more floating days.