Times of India, Jaipur, 19 June 08 JAIPUR: A day after the city faced severe problems of waterlogging when the first showers of the monsoon hit the city, JMC, JDA and the district administration held a joint consultation at the JDA headquarters on how to deal with the problem. As the city is not yet ready to provide the basic civic amenities, the mayor on Wednesday announced some emergency measures to tackle a repeat of Tuesday-like situation in the city. Inter alia, it has been announced that all the potholes on the city roads would be covered within the next 48 hours. It was also decided that that all further digging up of roads would be suspended, except in some urgent cases. The order comes close on the heels of a similar order that had set a deadline of June 15 for both government and private agencies to stop digging up roads. However, the order has exempted Bisalpur water project and Jaipur Vidyut Nigam Ltd (JVNL). The deliberations in the meeting also made provisions for additional control rooms, apart from the ones existing at Bani Park, Mansarovar and Ghat Gate, for addressing issues of waterlogging and drainage. These control rooms would co-ordinate with the mobile team of JMC inspecting and taking rounds of the city and would ensure fixing them up immediately. The civic agencies in the city have been boasting of handling rain up to five centimetres of rain in a single day but only 32 mm of it on Tuesday ex-posed their lack of preparedness. Citizens too poured in their grievances. "I am surprised by the attitude of the civic agencies towards providing basic facilities to tax-paying citizens. Why they did not respond to the Met department forecast of an early Monsoon this year. This kind of meetings and declarations do happen but nothing translates into real action," said Yogesh Mathur, a resident of Ramganj. "Unless we plan our developmental goals taking into account the size of population and the geographical spread of the city, we can not wish away the monsoon blues that we come across on a regular basis. Jaipur deserves a master-drainage and not just on paper but in reality," felt SK Saxena, an engineer with a private firm.