Getting into fire-fighting mode post the mayhem caused by heavy rains in the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has announced some emergency measures to combat inundation issues on stretches prone to frequent water-logging.
Addressing a press meet here on Monday, GHMC Commissioner M. Dana Kishore attributed water-logging in Serilingampally and Kukatpally circles to vents such as catch pits, manholes and drains being clogged by garbage, plastic waste and debris.
A total of 153 mobile response teams of the GHMC have been entrusted with the responsibility of regularly checking water vents over half-a-square-kilometre area around each water-logging point.
Pumps with the capacities from one HP to 10 HP would be placed at 121 locations to drain rainwater. At 32 locations with severe water-logging issues, 10 HP pumps would be placed round the clock. Officers of the Assistant Engineer cadre would be made in-charge of each of these pumps.
Senior circle-level officials have been made in-charge of these locations, who would go around their respective areas each time monsoon alerts are issued, checking all the vents.
In view of all the contours, through which rainwater drains into lakes, being constructed, he said temporary drains would be dug wherever possible to connect them to either tanks or storm water drains.
Cross drainage work
Orders have been issued to identify sites for constructing percolation tanks, wherever possible. Already, two sites have been identified at Serilingampally and Madhapur, and work would be taken up. Underground cross drainage work would be initiated on Shilparamam and Mindspace stretches, to let the flood water recede. New junctions would be developed and traffic signals would be established at some locations, after removing the U-turns, for free flow of traffic.
The Commissioner also urged employees working in the IT corridor not to venture out en masse immediately after a downpour.