Thousands of people from all walks of life, mostly school going children and office goers suffered immensely from water stagnation in the capital on Monday due to heavy rainfall following the cyclone Remal.
The metro rail service was disrupted across the day on Monday due to technical problems caused by the rain.
Fallen trees on different roads also halted vehicular movement.
As the city traffic was thin, people suffered from transport shortage and high fare of vehicles including rickshaws and auto-rickshaws.
The development works on roads also added sufferings to the people.
Shoppers at different markets could not open their shops across the city.
Dhaka city recorded 143 millimetres rainfall from 6:00am to 6:00pm on Monday, said Bangladesh Metrological Department meteorologist Shahnaj Sultana.
The waterlogged areas include Dakhsinkhan, Uttara Airport to Kakoli, Mirpur, Shewrapara, Kazipara, Agargaon, Bijoy Sarani, Rampura, Badda, Shyamoli, Manik Mia Avenue, Mouchak, New Market area and Titipara at Kamplapur along with Old town Siddiquebazar, Agamasih Lane, Sikkatuli Lane and Nazirabazar areas under Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation.
Gausia Market Shop Owners Association president Farid Uddin Ahmed told 抖阴精品 that not only the traders but also the school going children and residents in the area suffered whole day due to water stagnation problems.
Residents in the Dakshinkhan area alleged that development works on roads increased their woes.
As the matter was brought to his notice, DNCC ward 50 councillor DM Shamim sought apology for the problem.
Hundreds of passengers thronged the metro rail stations since morning due to inclement weather only to find the services of the 20.1-kilometre-long Uttara鈥揗otijheel route closed or disrupted for hours.聽 They had to take alternative means of travel by paying higher fare.
DMTCL managing director MAN Siddique told 抖阴精品 that on Monday they started metro rail services at the usual time at 7:00am.
鈥楢round 7:30am we had to stop the entire services due to stormy wind,鈥� he said and added that around 9:00am they resumed the services on one line and around 11:00am they resumed the services fully on both lines.
鈥榃e had to stop services from Agargaon station to Motijheel at 5:00pm as some areas including Motijheel was inundated by rain water,鈥� he said and added that from 5:00pm the services were active for the Uttara-Agargaon section on both lines.
Siddique explained that as their full electric system is underground they did not take any risk to run the trains.
鈥業 had to take bus to go to Uttara from Karwan Bazar amid huge suffering due to rain,鈥� said Anupam Ahmed, a regular metro passenger.
Around 6:30pm, some passengers said the metro services resumed fully up to Motijheel.
DNCC and DSCC authorities removed 108 and 50 fallen trees respectively from roads on the day.
In front of the National Press Club, Abdul Malek, a trader, was seen negotiating with a rickshaw puller to go to Nilkhet and the rickshaw puller was asking Tk聽150 for the distance which is Tk聽70 in normal time.
