dharwad heavy rainfall which lashed dharwad city on monday evening brought in bountiful of woes to the residents and also some shopowners the ongoing road widening work to facilitate brts added to the woes of people as water gushed into ditches and lowlying areas making the movement of pedestrians and vehicles difficult at several places rainwater gushed into the basement of the shankar plaza opposite kittel college at punebengaluru road causing huge loss to the shop owners as many as 10 cars and scores of twowheelers parked on the cellar were damaged the owners of shops located in the cellar estimated the total loss at rs 5 crorethey said that they have been running business in the complex since 1995 and had seen heavy rains lashing the area several times however there had never been more than 3 inches of waterlogging this time it created havoc as water gushed into the shops and several vehicles were submerged they said they blamed that due to the unscientific works taken up by the brts officials for the havochotel central park owner sunil shetty girish hegde of hegde xerox and others said that officials were informed about the unscientific works taken up by the contractor a few weeks back however the officials did not visit the spot resulting in rainwater gushing entering shankar plaza from all sidesmuddy water gushed into the commercial complex from court circle karnatak college and jubilee circle and almost 16 shops located here were flooded within a few minutes photo copying machines computers printing machines mobile phones laptops furniture were completely washed away in the rain a mega generator which was to supply power to the entire complex has been damaged none of the brts officials visited the spot to conduct inspection it was allegeda house and two compound walls have collapsed at jananth nagar near toll naka rainwater entered into the houses in lowlying areas in the same locality and people had a horrific time to drain out wateron tuesday mla arvind bellad inspected the affected areas and held meeting with people and shopowners he assured of bringing the matter to the notice of the government and arranging compensation