Vikramaditya
Port Blair, June 06: One spell of heavy rain today challenged the smartness of all the planners, designers and bosses of Port Blair smart city.
Today’s heavy rain has proved that nothing has changed in these Islands significantly and the tall claims of transforming it into a smart city are simply over-smartness.
Land sliding, flooding, overflowing of drains, road blockage and everything else that used to happened to this city twenty years back, repeated today and the smart Municipal Council was seen totally unprepared to tackle the situation.
This is irony of these Islands that even after several decades the town planners and top architects of Andaman and Nicobar Islands have failed to make the city drains wider and tackle the flood like situations in Port Blair city.
People of smart city Port Blair as usual moved on after today’s poor show without any complaint. They walked through the overflowing dirty drain water, drove vehicles from the flooded roads, knowing well that nothing will probably change in Port Blair in next 20 years. Very smart indeed.
