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With an purpose of making the cities escaped of floods and maintaining hygiene, the Andhra Pradesh authorities has introduced a broad Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for technological de-siltation and harmless cleaning of municipality drains successful each Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) successful the State.
S.Suresh Kumar, Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Department, successful a connection connected Tuesday, said the SOP mandates replacing sporadic, reactive drain cleaning with a planned, technology-driven and accountability-based system. He said the determination aims to code chronic waterlogging, trim flood risks during the monsoon and amended nationalist wellness outcomes.
The inaugural aligns with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s imaginativeness of mounting up climate-resilient municipality centres, emphasising semipermanent solutions, integer monitoring and infrastructure susceptible of withstanding clime variability, helium said.
The SOP covers the full lifecycle of municipality drains — from mapping and plan to regular cleaning, monitoring and structural correction.
The Principal Secretary said the caller model tackles the basal causes of flooding and sanitation failures.
“Drain attraction has agelong been treated arsenic a regular sanitation enactment alternatively than captious infrastructure management. This SOP introduces a preventive, technological attack with fixed schedules, integer mapping and strict accountability,” helium said, adding that the Municipal Commissioners would beryllium held liable for compliance.
The cardinal features of the SoP see GIS-based integer inventory of drains, mechanised cleaning with mandatory idiosyncratic information measures, outcome-based contracting, national information and stringent enforcement against dumping.
