AGARTALA, Nov 4 (TIWN): Lives have turned miserable here after one day long rain Agartala City’s many parts have fully gone under water. Reportedly, the whole Agartala City is now floating over rain water and flood like situation is there with the waist level of water in many places. Surprising matter is that the Capital City which is known as the lifeline of the state, half of the year it stays under rain water but no initiative has been taken by the state govt. Question remains, is there any chance for betterment of the current situation? TIWN reported, there are heavy chances of rain in next 24 hours, which may worsen the situation further. Talking to a local man, who was buying vegetables for his home, he told TIWN, “No respite from C category town’s garbage, broken roads when rain disrupts here”. “This rain was fully unexpected and in official day the situation becomes more bad”, he added.

The Agartala was selected under the 13 top urban cities which are now ready to be converted into SMART Cities.  But in reality there is no sign of Agartala’s becoming a SMART City as till day there is no proper drainage yet arranged in Agartala city. With a few splash of rain the city dupes into water and water logging till waist, is very common for Agartala City. Whereas Agartala city is aimed convert into a SMART City in future, but it has remained as one of the most ‘Garbage-dumping-ground.

Under Manik Sarkar’s regime another example of Tripura’s Golden Era is the Municipal Council’s cleanliness management skill across the Agartala city. The whole city is hit with dirty smells, garbage beside the road and resulting into unhygienic condition and when rain comes the situation gets more pathetic.

Tripura Govt. although receiving enormous Central Fundings to upgrade the capital city but PWD, Urban Development Departments have recently rejected the proposal of 50:50 cost sharing of ‘SMART’ city fundings. Although PM Modi said that “Urbanisation shall be considered as an opportunity, not obstracle as Urbanization can reduce poverty”, but the Communist govt. in Tripura has simply denied the proposal as the Central Govt. tightened the way to loot central funds in this projects with the announcement of 50:50 (Central : State) fund sharing.

During the budget counter speech AMC Mayor Prafullajit Sinha talked about various projects ongoing and also completed project among which he claimed about the almost completion of JNNURM’s (Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission) Rs. 102.22 crores, which was sanctioned for Storm Water Drainage system.

 But in reality there is no sign of proper drainage yet flowing in Agartala city. With a few splash of rain the city drowns into water and water logging till waist, is very common for Agartala City.