Defective VVWW valve floods lodge – Star of Mysore – Imperial Wire

• Water gushes into basement of lodge in Yadavagiri; heavy injury to furnishings and rooms
• Will Vani Vilas Water Works pay compensation?

Mysore/Mysuru: The employees of Resort Komfort Suites on Vivekananda Highway in Yadavagiri woke as much as flooded premises after water from the Floor-Stage Reservoir on the Vani Vilas Water Works (VVWW), situated behind the lodge, overflowed and inundated the property within the early hours of as we speak.

Water entered the lodge’s basement, reception space, corridors and rooms, in addition to damaging the compound wall and furnishings price a number of lakhs of rupees. It’s learnt {that a} delay of about half-hour in closing the valve resulted in water gushing into the lodge like a small stream, inflicting intensive injury.

As VVWW employees did not arrive in time to shut the valve, lodge employees shut it themselves to forestall additional injury.

Repeated flooding 

Staff engaged in clearing the water mentioned this was not the primary such incident. The lodge has been flooded on a number of events up to now and regardless of repeated representations to VVWW authorities to rectify the issue and stop water from coming into the premises, no everlasting answer has been applied to date.

In the meantime, members of the Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) and the Yadavagiri Residents Affiliation (YRA) rushed to the spot, inspected the lodge premises and alerted officers of the Mysuru Metropolis Company (MCC) and VVWW.

Following this, MCC Superintending Engineer Manju, VVWW Government Engineer Ashwin Kumar, Assistant Government Engineer Mustafa, Junior Engineer Natesh and different employees visited the positioning and inspected the lodge and the valve chamber.

Chatting with Star of Mysore, Superintending Engineer Manju mentioned there was an issue with the water valve of the Floor-Stage Reservoir and that an estimate was being ready to restore the valve chamber.

He added that the valve has now been closed and water movement into the lodge has stopped. He additionally mentioned that VVWW would get the broken compound wall repaired as we speak and be certain that such incidents don’t recur in future.

Will MCC or VVWW compensate for loss?

President and CEO of Resort Komfort Suites, Hemanth Kumar, chatting with Star of Mysore this morning, mentioned that the lodge’s sanitary strains, water pipes and underground energy cables have been broken. He added that the false ceiling, compound wall and fencing collapsed because of the water-logging.

He additional mentioned that the bottom flooring of the lodge has been crammed with sewage-mixed water and that employees are at present pumping it out. Rooms on the left aspect of the lodge can’t be rented for no less than every week as a consequence of silt deposition and foul odour.

“I’ve suffered losses operating into a number of lakhs of rupees. Will the MCC or VVWW compensate for the loss? Due to my lodge constructing, water was prevented from gushing into homes in low-lying areas. I can be writing to the MCC Commissioner on this regard,” he mentioned.