KOLKATA, 17 AUG: A casual approach to a serious civic issue, the rampant misuse of groundwater, might lead to massive subsidence in the city in the near future, engineers and geologists spoken to by The Statesman have said.

Though the cave-in on Council House Street today was due to the collapse of the underground brick sewer, engineers of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the State Water Inves

Water is leaking out from the ground in Azad Maidan near CST and Marine Lines. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which took note of the surface run-off recently, has now asked a consultant geologist to look into what might be causing the phenomenon.

 GUWAHATI, Aug 8