The important people who guide the destinies of the state capital don’t have to go far to find the areas where there is waterlogging when it rains as little as 1 cm in the rainy season.Express provides chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and governor E S L Narasimhan a guided tour of waterlogged roads nearest to where they live.The journey takes but five minutes of their time.* Camp Office Lake: The road right in front of the chief minister’s camp office floods up after every sharp shower.Huge pools of rainwater form on the road under the Begumpet flyover and opposite ITC Kakatiya on the road to Secunderabad.Being an arterial road, a traffic jam materialises quickly and clogs up the whole business district of Punjagutta within minutes.* NIMS Sagar: The road from the Punjagutta bus stop to the NIMS entrance becomes one huge knee-deep water whenever there’s a downpour.When heavy rains lashed the city last week, the NIMS entrance was inundated within minutes of the shower.Many patients and relatives were stuck in front of the hospital without being able to go in.Many others found shelter in the crowded bus stop nearby, which was the only elevated platform around.* Raj BhavanVagu: Raj Bhavan Road once used to be lapped by the Hussain Sagar.Each rain reminds Hyderabadis of that fact.The road on which the Guv’s house stands is a major waterlogging point.Md Haneef, a security gurad of an apartment complex on this regal road, says he can’t get to work whenever there is even a shower.Tour consultant at Latitudes Travel India Vali Mohammed Khan says local residents have complained innumerable times to the GHMC, but the problem never gets solved.“From Lakeview Guest House to KFC restaurant is a waterlogging point that the governor can’t miss.I wonder if he has ever driven on this road when there is rain.” n People living around Raj Bhavan have found their own solutions to the problem after giving up waiting for the corporation to set it right for them.Reliance Trends on this have constructed a drain with a sieved opening to let the water out.“Fifteen days ago, the road was a mess with waterlogging everywhere.We built this ten days ago.We did not want to wait for the corporation,” said one of the staff members.
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