Heavy rains damage compound wall of retired professor’s house in Mangaluru

With no shoulder drains on C.G. Kamath Road at Karangalpady, rainwater gushed into the basement parking of Canara Bank Apartment. The accumulated rainwater breached the apartment’s compound wall and thereafter damaged the compound walls of the adjacent house, belonging to Shikaripura Krishnamurthy, a retired professor of St. Aloysius College in Mangaluru.

Torrential rains that lashed the coast of Karnataka damaged the compound wall of the house of a retired college professor. His house, at Karangalpadi in Mangaluru, was filled with slush early in the morning December 3.

With no shoulder drains on C.G. Kamath Road at Karangalpady, rainwater gushed into the basement parking of Canara Bank Apartment. The accumulated rainwater breached the apartment’s compound wall and thereafter damaged the compound walls of the adjacent house, belonging to Shikaripura Krishnamurthy, a retired professor of St. Aloysius College in Mangaluru.

Mr. Krishnamurthy said water entered his house too, bringing in large quantity of slush. It appeared like a cloudburst in the area, he said. His ayurveda physician son Srivatsa Bharadwaj told The Hindu that the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has not completed work on the shoulder drains.

Consequently, rainwater flows on the entire C. G. Kamath Road. Part of it was flowing into the Canara Bank apartment basement resulting in the consequent breach of the compound wall of the apartment as well as their house, Dr. Bharadwaj said.

Kottara Chowki that regularly witnesses flooding due to encroachment of storm water drains was not spared on Tuesday December 3 too. Many shops were inundated with rainwater with shopkeepers struggling to drain out the water.

Social activist K. Jayakrishnan, a resident in the nearby locality Maladi Court, complained that the administration did nothing to clear the encroachment of the storm water drain. “We waited for long to meet Upa Lokayukta B. Veerappa, who was hearing public grievances on December 2, to appraise him of the situation. But the meeting did not take place. We request the Deputy Commissioner to arrange his visit to the area at least on Tuesday December 3,” Mr. Jayakrishnan said.