The monsoon will soon begin in Mumbai and yet, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) doesn’t look ready to take care of waterlogging. The municipal corporation is running behind on the May 15 deadline to conclude the pre-monsoon nullah cleaning exercise across the city.
The Storm Water Drain (SWD) department officials said that they had managed to finish 20 per cent of the task. However, they added that the civic body is facing difficulty in finishing the remaining work and this could result in waterlogging during monsoon.
One of the officials laid the blame on the contractors who allegedly had caused the delay in the mobilisation of machinery and resources. The official also added that they were facing difficulty in finding land for dumping the silt collected from the nullahs.
Meanwhile, it is possible that owing to the Lok Sabha elections, all the corporators are busy campaigning for their party candidates and accordingly, this has led to negligence towards civic issues.
As per the data available with the SWD department, the city has over 2900 km of drain network comprising minor and major nullahs, arch drains, roadside open drains and closed pipe drains.
The monsoon will soon begin in Mumbai and yet, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) doesn’t look ready to take care of waterlogging. The municipal corporation is running behind on the May 15 deadline to conclude the pre-monsoon nullah cleaning exercise across the city.
The Storm Water Drain (SWD) department officials said that they had managed to finish 20 per cent of the task. However, they added that the civic body is facing difficulty in finishing the remaining work and this could result in waterlogging during monsoon.
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One of the officials laid the blame on the contractors who allegedly had caused the delay in the mobilisation of machinery and resources. The official also added that they were facing difficulty in finding land for dumping the silt collected from the nullahs.
Meanwhile, it is possible that owing to the Lok Sabha elections, all the corporators are busy campaigning for their party candidates and accordingly, this has led to negligence towards civic issues.
As per the data available with the SWD department, the city has over 2900 km of drain network comprising minor and major nullahs, arch drains, roadside open drains and closed pipe drains.