Waterlogging
New Delhi- Public Works Department (PWD) is all set to lay around 500 concrete roads in the city on a move to improve the lifespan of stretches prone to water logging. Najafgarh-Nangloi, Uttam Nagar-Najafgarh and Rama Road near Karol Bagh are among the main stretches of the 500 roads, while rest of them are small [...] Continue Reading »
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has decided to impose fine on anyone found leaving construction material on the roadside as it may clog the drains during monsoons. Mayor of SDMC, Savita Gupta, said that the decision was taken this week as the corporation has noticed that there is a mass of construction works being [...] Continue Reading »
An empty four-storey building collapsed following a heavy rainfall in Mumbai. The building Gopal Bhavan, is situated in Mamlatdar Wadi in suburban Malad. Luckily, there were none living in the apartment as the residents had already been evacuated following the declaration of the structure as ‘dangerous‘ by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Sources say that five [...] Continue Reading »
There has been many witnesses of poor provision of civic amenities in the Patna city. The members of the state legislative council have recently complained about the state government’s work over civic amenities in the city. The issue was raised in the question hour in the state assembly about the issues like mosquito menace, waterlogging, [...] Continue Reading »
A decade old sewage pipes are serving hardly any purpose to the residents of Ghatkopar in Mumbai. They are fed up with water logging even when it is not raining. Residents say that the dumping of solid wastes and accumulation of silt has led to waterlogging on the internal roads of the city. Residents claim [...] Continue Reading »
In the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Civic Centre, there are four water harvesting wells. The motor that pumps out the water hasn’t been working for some time due to which there was water accumulation yesterday in front of the office. Even on Ranjit Singh Marg there was waterlogging and huge traffic jam due to [...] Continue Reading »
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), earlier this year had deployed 525 portable pumps and 14 high-discharged mobile diesel pumpsets in all its zones. Not only this, control rooms in all zones were made operational 24×7 to attend to waterlogging complaints. But all this could not prevent the chaos that Delhiites faced after Tuesday’s rains. Forty [...] Continue Reading »
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) purchased equipment like transceivers (walkie-talkies), floating pumps and tree-cutting machines to handle flood-like situations. If the monsoon gets any heavier and there are any flood-like situations, Pune disaster management cell will be able to handle it. The cell was keeping a 24×7 watch on the situation at chowks vulnerable to [...] Continue Reading »
Rain on Tuesday evening exposes MCD’s tall claims of being ready for the rains. Only a few hours of rain was enough to wreak mayhem in the city. Traffic was disrupted on several main roads, several arterial roads were flooded, traffic lights went on the blink and vehicles were caught in a gridlock. The Central [...] Continue Reading »
