kolkata kolkata had a strange rainfall pattern on wednesday afternoon it was a northsouth divide so far as rainfall pattern was considered while rains gave north kolkata a miss large parts of south were lashed by sudden rains it was like a cloudburst that accompanied heavy rains in shorter span going by the kmc drainage department records some parts of south kolkata such as chetla kalighat gariahat dhakuria jodhpur park lake gardens baghajatin garia bansdroni kudghat mominpore and some behala localities received heavy rains between 230pm and 3pmgoing by rainfall pattern as recorded by our drainage pumping stations chetla kalighat anwar shah road lake gardens jodhpur park gariahat baghajatin bansdroni kudghat received rains above 20 mm in half an hour the intensity of the rains was reduced after 3pm said a kmc drainage department officialresidents of these areas experienced waterlogging officegoers were seen stranded at metro stations namely tollygunge netaji kudghat and masterda surja sen bansdroni later they had to wade through waterlogged streets on way back homekmc drainage department officials said portable pumps were being readied for flushing out storm water from lowlying areas of behala tollygunge and areas located off eastern metropolitan bypass in the event of heavy rains in the coming days in a meeting held at the civic headquarters mayor firhad hakim took stock of the situation of waterloggingprone central kolkata localities special arrangements will be made including undertaking a massive desilting project and engaging sophisticated equipment will be on the cards said a kmc sewerage and drainage department official