Rain sob begins
Bombay and rains... rains and Bombay
now since 2005, these 2 terms go together like a boat on water...
Today the first 20 min shower hit the Goregaon area and there was already waterlogging.
In short, the situation is going to be worse this time - reason, the concretization of the roads is the root cause. This work has not been carried out by 'technically sound' people. It has been carried out haphazardly by the labor oriented mindset which just wants the work to be done and get away with it. No attention is paid to technically implementing a sound design and ensure quality work.
There is no slope concept - the concrete is paved in such a way that at places it forms a water catchement, instead of sloping to the sides of the road, the water is collected right there in the middle, which eventually seeps into the concrete and loosens it up!! lo and behold, the pot holes are right there again...
Similarly, to save on the labor and resources, the contractors smartly butt in the interlocking blocks along almost 5 ft. from the concrete patch till the edge.
Resulting impact - the patch under the interlocking block slips and slides and gives way so that the surface caves in. Water collects and there you have a part of moonscape on earth.
In the event of heavy rains, the water has no way to go but flow over these patchy work, and the force carries away with it all the mindless, stupid hard work put in by a mentality of work that has no regard for any technology nor to quality of work, thereby bringing the whole city back to ground zero.
Where do we go from here....
reams of paper again talks about the BMC disaster management cell, crores of tax money going into the hands of monkeys who will not just play around with the instruments but probably will misuse half of them and by the time the rains are over, the disaster management equipment will end up in some disastrous state.
now since 2005, these 2 terms go together like a boat on water...
Today the first 20 min shower hit the Goregaon area and there was already waterlogging.
In short, the situation is going to be worse this time - reason, the concretization of the roads is the root cause. This work has not been carried out by 'technically sound' people. It has been carried out haphazardly by the labor oriented mindset which just wants the work to be done and get away with it. No attention is paid to technically implementing a sound design and ensure quality work.
There is no slope concept - the concrete is paved in such a way that at places it forms a water catchement, instead of sloping to the sides of the road, the water is collected right there in the middle, which eventually seeps into the concrete and loosens it up!! lo and behold, the pot holes are right there again...
Similarly, to save on the labor and resources, the contractors smartly butt in the interlocking blocks along almost 5 ft. from the concrete patch till the edge.
Resulting impact - the patch under the interlocking block slips and slides and gives way so that the surface caves in. Water collects and there you have a part of moonscape on earth.
In the event of heavy rains, the water has no way to go but flow over these patchy work, and the force carries away with it all the mindless, stupid hard work put in by a mentality of work that has no regard for any technology nor to quality of work, thereby bringing the whole city back to ground zero.
Where do we go from here....
reams of paper again talks about the BMC disaster management cell, crores of tax money going into the hands of monkeys who will not just play around with the instruments but probably will misuse half of them and by the time the rains are over, the disaster management equipment will end up in some disastrous state.
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