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Multiple localities in Kolkata, particularly on the southern aspect have additionally been battling electrical energy, and potable water provide points after the heavy rains and waterlogging within the intermittent evening of September 22-23 introduced town to a standstill. Electricity connection was restored in some areas in Kolkata after nearly 36-40 hours complained residents.
“Dirty flood water entered our reservoir and contaminated our government-supplied water, now we have been residing with out water for 2 days now,” Aniruddha Ghatak, a resident of Kalikapur space in southern Kolkata instructed The Hindu on Wednesday (September 24, 2025). He additionally added that their entire neighbourhood has been shopping for ingesting water to maintain, however these have additionally gone off the cabinets after individuals began hoarding them in giant portions.
Pump restore retailers throughout Kolkata noticed lengthy queues on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) as residents went to restore their gadgets as soon as the water receded. “Water entered the pump which is on the bottom ground of our home. If we flip it on with out restore the entire home’s fuse will short-circuit,” a resident of Behala, a neighbourhood in south Kolkata stated.
Residents in south Kolkata flocked to pump repairing retailers in large numbers a day after heavy rains flooded town, broken their water pumps and led to an acute water disaster. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri
A small roadside tea store proprietor’s stall has been washed off within the rain and flooding water. When he arrived at his humble store on Rashbihari Avenue on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) he realised only some wood planks of his store remained.
“I misplaced books price hundreds of rupees. We are small retailers promoting previous books, how will we get well?” a guide vendor of College Street space in north Kolkata stated. He was seen selecting up water-soaked books from inside his store, trying to save lots of just a few books. Water additionally broken printing machines, xerox machines, and broken large stacks of papers within the tons of of retailers on this low-lying locality.
Though water receded from main elements of town by Wednesday (September 24, 2025) morning, many areas in Ballygunge, Kalikapur, Behala, Mukundapur, Patuli, Kasba, Garia, Thanthania, and plenty of different elements of Kolkata remained waterlogged preserving the residents distressed. Daily commuters struggled to achieve work, wading by soiled and stagnant water close to their houses. Portable pumps had been getting used to empty out the water. Kolkata Municipal Corporation staff had been additionally seen unclogging drainage pipes and retailers to assist the water recede quicker.
Book sellers of Street suffered heavy losses and damages because of the extreme rains that led to excessive waterlogging. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri
“I misplaced over ₹1.5 lakhs price medicines, together with many important care medicines. The rain occurred at midnight, there was no correct warning in opposition to it. How might now we have imagined that the devastation can be of this magnitude?” a medication store proprietor close to Lake Market space in south Kolkata questioned.
Many areas within the metropolis had waist and knee-deep water on Tuesday (September 23, 2025). Businesses and houses which had been on the bottom ground of buildings had been the worst affected. Right earlier than the Durga Puja season, this financial loss has grow to be an enormous burden for companies throughout town who suffered large losses.
Notably, Kolkata obtained 247.5 mm rainfall inside 5 hours, in some areas it obtained over 330 mm which led to this extreme devastation. Nine individuals misplaced their lives to electrocution.
It additionally gave rise to a political disagreement with Bharatiya Janta Party protesting in opposition to the Trinamool Congress authorities as they blamed them for mismanagement. “What occurred yesterday isn’t a pure catastrophe however an administrative catastrophe,” Samik Bhattacharya, BJP State President stated on Wednesday (September 24, 2025).
“In any civilised society, this may have been a second for compassion and solidarity. But @BJP4India, being what it’s, selected to scavenge over corpses,” TMC’s MP Sagarika Ghose countered.
The IMD has predicted one other low-pressure space more likely to type over the east-central Bay of Bengal round September 25, which can lead to widespread mild to reasonable rainfall in Kolkata and adjoining areas from September 26.
