ranchi every monsoon for the last 30 years vendors and shopkeepers on main road close to the daily market police station get marooned by stagnant rainwater and overflowing sewage from drains even the owners cannot come out of their shops due to kneedeep muck and filth flowing on the footpath and in front of their shops let alone customerschotu a middleaged vendor selling fruit at the market for the last 15 years expressed his concerns about the waterlogging issue during rains he said whenever it rains sewage from drains swamps the road causing inconvenience to residents and shopkeepers with filth flowing all aroundit is a tough task to clean up the accumulated waste and filth he said blaming it on the negligence of the municipal corporation in cleaning the drains mostly in the alleys of the marketaccording to vegetable vendors yashodha and radha lack of proper drainage and negligence of the authorities in cleaning the clogged narrow drains cause the trouble this situation compels them to move to a higher platform next to heaps of waste to avoid being inundated when the road gets under water they claim that the drains constructed by the municipal corporation are small and inadequate ranchi municipal corporation city manager sandeep kumar blames the vendors for the problem accusing them of throwing garbage and clogging the drains the vendors of the market have been treating the drains as dustbins throwing waste like bottles plates bread vegetable waste and packing material into the drains he saidhe also said one of the main problems arises when vendors set up stalls on top of the drains this obstructs the cleaning process and makes it difficult for authorities to maintain and manage the drainage effectively despite receiving notices with a deadline of 1520 days to remove stalls the vendors have shown reluctance in complying with the instructions he saidwhile rmc deputy administrator rajnish kumar said he will get the situation checked and take action to improve the condition town commissioner sashi ranjan said everything is getting cleaned up