Officials stated that although flood waters began to retreat gradually, and the renewal normal life before the festive period remains an immediate challenge of administration. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri
Kolkata tried to return to normal on Wednesday (September 24, 2025), because several areas, especially Salt Lake and pockets of the north and central part of the city, remained water, the day after the torrential rain left 10 people dead and threw their lives from the facility in the metropolis.
The Met department has excluded heavy rain in the city in the city over the next 24 hours, although it predicts the sky with a light to a slight shower accompanied by thunder and impact winds in some places.
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The water was pumped from the low -laid areas of Calcutta and the adjacent areas during the night, but the residents of Bidhannagar continued to rush under the floods, moving the vehicles at a snail pace and pedestrians were forced to navigate the flooded stripes.
To avoid accidents, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation turned off street lights on Tuesday 23 September) in the evening.
The main Minister Mamata Baerjee, who on Tuesday, September 23) postponed her scheduled inauguration Durga Puja Pandal in Kalighat, is expected to visit Marquees in Kalighat.
Officials stated that although flood waters began to retreat gradually, and the renewal normal life before the festive period remains an immediate challenge of administration.
The situation in Calcutta and the adjacent districts will be carefully monitored on Wednesday, September 24 with a bigger rain on the radar, they said.
At least 10 people were killed, nine of them because of electric currents, because the rain over night – among the most difficult in almost four decades – left Kolkata and neighboring districts paralyzed on Tuesdays, crushed air, rail and road transport, closed educational institutions and prompted the government to advance.
The downpour-251.4 mm in less than 24 hours-has the highest since 1986 and the sixth highest one-day rainfall in the last 137 years, only after a record of 369.6 mm in 1978, 253 mm in 1888 and 259.5 in 1986.
It changed the arterial roads into the rivers, captured the metro rail and train services, and threw air transport into a mess when the city was caught for a normal level at the largest Bengal – Durga Puja festival.
Published – September 24 2025 10:00
