Chennai:

A rain vacation has been declared for colleges in eight districts of Tamil Nadu together with Chennai, Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu and Tiruvallur districts amid persevering with heavy rain since final evening. Colleges have additionally been shut within the delta districts of Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam.

The north east monsoon had set in a number of days in the past. The MET has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in sixteen districts over the following 4 days. 

“Chennai’s Nungambakkam received 80.4 MM, the third highest rain received on the 1st of November in 72 years,” mentioned Mr. Balachandran, Deputy Director, MET centre in Chennai. Nagapattinam district obtained as much as 4.5 CM until 5:30 am this morning.

Underscoring MET division’s forecast of 35 to 75 % extra rains this season, Chief Minister M Ok Stalin who reviewed the monsoon preparedness throughout the state at present urged district administrations to be ready with reduction and emergency operation plans together with “keeping ready hospitals, schools, mobile phone services and relief centres”.

So far there have been no main experiences of inundation in Chennai, During the final north east monsoon Chennai had witnessed extreme inundation and water logging. 

Just a number of months into their taking on, the ruling DMK had then blamed the sooner AIADMK authorities for the mess and drew up a 964 crore main plan to construct storm water drains to handle the disaster. This monsoon season can be seen as an acid take a look at for effectivity of  the civic physique’s work.  

Vijay Venkatesh, a resident of Seethammal Colony, an inundation hotspot mentioned “There’s a marked improvement in the colony. There’s not much of water logging anymore due to the good work done by the corporation over the last several months. We hope they’d be able to sustain this”. 

The Chennai company just lately shared that the 964 KM lengthy storm water drains community is both over and virtually over besides the long run initiatives which have been suspended amid the monsoon. 

Recently the Commissioner of Greater Chennai Corporation Mr Gagandeep Singh Bedi had mentioned “We have taken up lots of steps to reduce inundation, We had many pain points last year. This time water should not stagnate there. There could be water logging if there is heavy rain, but still water would drain soon”. 

In areas the place the development works is not accomplished but
authorities say they’d deploy pumps to flush out waters within the occasion of very heavy rains.

There can also be fear about stretches of incomplete dug up areas. Recently, a younger journalist S Muthukrishnan who fell into one such incomplete storm water drain died.  

Talking concerning the electrical energy division’s preparedness, Electricity Minister Mr Senthil Balaji mentioned “A lakh and a half electric posts are ready. We are prepared to face the north east monsoon”.