HYDERABAD: As part of its
monsoon action plan for this year, the
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has drawn up a host of activities that it will undertake, to tackle emergency situations. To begin with, the civic body has formed five kinds of teams to attend to different issues arising at the time of heavy rainfall — clearing uprooted trees/branches from roads, preventing inundation in low lying areas and draining out stagnant water from the roads, officials said.
As many as 79 Instant Repair Teams (IRT) comprising two labours armed with a small vehicle and construction material (including cement and sand) will be deployed to primarily take up small repairs such as filling of pot holes, repairing of footpaths, kerbs, central medians and replacing manhole covers.
“The second kind of team will be the mini mobile
monsoon emergency team that will comprise four staffers with one vehicle and all necessary equipment such as tree cutter, pump, crowbars, axe, bowls etc. The civic body will deploy 102 such teams within its limits,” said an official.
Further, there’ll be 38 mobile monsoon emergency teams consisting and central emergency teams — present round the clock — apart from static labour teams that’ll exclusively attend to water stagnation by removing blockages caused due to plastic covers and other waste material.
The town planning department, officials said, is identifying structures that have been served with notices for being structurally unfit and removing the names of those that have been renovated. “Total 996 dilapidated buildings have been identified; 667 structures have been demolished in the last three years,” said a town planning official.
For carrying out de-watering of low lying areas, the GHMC has earmarked 255 pump sets this year as against 93 in 2017.
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