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The Kochi Corporation has directed the Minor Irrigation section to defer restoration of the remaining 175-metre agelong of the Mullassery Canal until aft the monsoon.
Mayor V.K. Minimol has instructed that the enactment beryllium postponed until astir August, citing superior civic issues that could originate if the roadworthy is dug up and the canal blocked during the highest monsoon months. The section had been considering completing the ₹4.80-crore task utilizing pre-cast exertion wrong six to 8 months of its commencement.
Ms. Minimol said the Corporation has earmarked ₹20 crore for pre-monsoon works, including ₹13 lakh each for the 76 divisions. In addition, ₹50,000 has been allocated to each part for urgent monsoon-related restoration works.
During a caller meeting, the Corporation had taken up the terrible waterlogging menace faced by six divisions from Kunnumpuram to Palarivattom owed to the ongoing nationalist road works astatine Edappally with the State government. The authorities has assured that the blocked drains volition beryllium restored by June 1, according to the Mayor.
She added that the ongoing metro obstruction works person caused terrible problems successful respective divisions, with drains on galore stretches clogged by slurry. The Corporation has tasked Kochi Metro Rail Limited with clearing the slurry and restoring the drains astatine aggregate locations.
“The agelong successful beforehand of St. Martin Church remains 1 of the worst bottlenecks, reducing postulation connected some sides to a crawl. With barriers successful place, lone a constrictive agelong of roadworthy is disposable for vehicles, and that excessively is poorly surfaced and riddled with potholes. The concern is apt to worsen erstwhile the monsoon sets in,” she said.
The Corporation claimed that smaller canals and drains person been cleaned, portion enactment to wide larger canals is nether way. Eight of the 13 railway culverts person besides been cleaned.
However, Opposition Left Democratic Front parliamentary enactment person V.A. Sreejith alleged that monsoon preparatory works person derailed successful respective areas. “Cleaning of large canals and backwater mouths, important for the creaseless drainage of rainwater from the city, has either not been completed oregon not adjacent started. Though files related to monsoon preparatory works were cleared earlier the exemplary codification of behaviour came into unit up of the Assembly election, the governing committee failed to guarantee due oversight,” helium said.
He further alleged that the Corporation had failed to efficaciously coordinate with assorted departments, a cardinal request for preventing waterlogging successful the city. The archetypal spell of rain, which caused waterlogging successful respective areas, was a grim reminder of what the metropolis could look during monsoon, Mr. Sreejith said.
