Mangalore: Monsoon arrived with vengeance to Karnataka Coast ahead of schedule and caught officials unaware of pre-monsoon public works on clogged drainages and road repair works.
The officials are totally ill-prepared to face monsoon onslaught due to back to back elections held recently. Any development or repair works were stalled in the name of election code of conduct and district is paying heavily for this folly.
The election of Mangalore Mayor is yet to be finalized and local body machinery is rudderless. The sudden arrival of monsoon proved, how ill-equipped are the administration in facing disaster management. Even yearly maintenance work of drainages and roads were kept pending for long time.
There is a landslides and clogging of drainages every were in the city and it is time, local bodies take up the work in atmost urgency so that suffering of the citizens can be lessened somewhat.