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The Hyderabad Disaster Response & Asset Protection Agency has sped up the de-silting of the stormwater drains from Jubilee Hills and Venkatagiri areas via Krishna Nagar and towards Ameerpet, a fewer days up of the onset of monsoons.
A connection from the HYDRAA has informed that the drains, meandering done lanes and bylanes, are filled silt, which reduced the capableness of the drains by 70%. Though the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has awarded the de-silting works to a contractor, the works person been delayed, hence, HYDRAA had to intervene.
HYDRAA main A.V. Ranganath, during an inspection connected Saturday, directed the officials and the contractor to expedite the works, and region the slabs wherever indispensable to beryllium capable to region the silt. He asked the contractor to hole robust grills to the drains for faster evacuation of water. Mr. Ranganath besides spoke astir a connection to make different large drain from Venkatagiri circumventing the constrictive lanes.
He besides inspected the presumption of the drains of Malkam Cheruvu successful Kukatpally and expressed dissatisfaction astatine the sturdiness of sluice gates being installed to trim the h2o level successful the lake. Due to compromised inlets and outlets, the country experiences terrible floods each year, helium said, and directed the officials to guarantee that the sluices are capable to bring down the lake’s level by 2 meters.
Along with the de-silting of the inlets, the sluice astatine the outlet should beryllium expanded, and deepened, helium directed. Officials from HYDRAA, GHMC, Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board, and Irrigation departments accompanied him connected his inspection.
