<p>The Bihar government has sought help from the Army to make a bridge to help people move across Patna, which remained submerged in rain and drain water for the eighth consecutive day on Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“The Army has been called in to make an alternative bridge on a drain in Rajendra Nagar. The old bridge is hampering the outflow of accumulated water. It will be demolished and a new one will be constructed in its place in November-December this year,” Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi said.<br /><br />Many residential areas in Patna, including Rajendra Nagar, Kankarbagh, Patliputra Colony and Kadam Kuan, are under two to three feet of water, affecting a majority of the 20 lakh population in the city.<br /><br />Manjhi slammed the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) for the severe waterlogging in the state capital since August 13, saying it failed to drain out the water. <br /><br />The PMC could not even spend the Rs 27 crore provided recently by the government to buy equipment to clear waterlogging, the chief minister said.<br /><br />Manjhi said no work was being done in the PMC and people were suffering due to infighting between the mayor and the municipal commissioner. <br /><br />Manjhi also asked Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh to look for an alternative way to bypass the quarrelling mayor and commissioner so that the people did not suffer.<br /><br />Summoned by the Patna High Court in a suo motu case, the chief secretary appeared before a division bench of Justices V N Sinha and P K Jha on Wednesday and assured judges that waterlogging would be cleared in the next 48 hours, provided there was no further rainfall.<br /></p>
<p>The Bihar government has sought help from the Army to make a bridge to help people move across Patna, which remained submerged in rain and drain water for the eighth consecutive day on Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“The Army has been called in to make an alternative bridge on a drain in Rajendra Nagar. The old bridge is hampering the outflow of accumulated water. It will be demolished and a new one will be constructed in its place in November-December this year,” Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi said.<br /><br />Many residential areas in Patna, including Rajendra Nagar, Kankarbagh, Patliputra Colony and Kadam Kuan, are under two to three feet of water, affecting a majority of the 20 lakh population in the city.<br /><br />Manjhi slammed the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) for the severe waterlogging in the state capital since August 13, saying it failed to drain out the water. <br /><br />The PMC could not even spend the Rs 27 crore provided recently by the government to buy equipment to clear waterlogging, the chief minister said.<br /><br />Manjhi said no work was being done in the PMC and people were suffering due to infighting between the mayor and the municipal commissioner. <br /><br />Manjhi also asked Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh to look for an alternative way to bypass the quarrelling mayor and commissioner so that the people did not suffer.<br /><br />Summoned by the Patna High Court in a suo motu case, the chief secretary appeared before a division bench of Justices V N Sinha and P K Jha on Wednesday and assured judges that waterlogging would be cleared in the next 48 hours, provided there was no further rainfall.<br /></p>