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The Hindu Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Public Works Department (PWD) has identified 448 waterlogging hotspots crossed the Capital and issued a 10-point modular operating process (SOP) to show dewatering pumps up of the monsoon and forestall inundation.
The authorities said the SOP aims to found a systematic process for the deployment, operation, monitoring and attraction of dewatering pumps during the monsoon, guarantee nationalist safety, and support creaseless drainage.
It mandates that pumps beryllium operated connected car mode wherever automation is available, with continuous monitoring to cheque for vibration, overheating, antithetic sound oregon leakage. Adequate substance banal — capable for astatine slightest 10 hours of continuous cognition — indispensable beryllium maintained for diesel generators, which are to beryllium tested regular for 10 minutes on with operational checks of pumps connected to the backup system.
The SOP besides lays down information measures. “No electrical cablegram shall stay submerged successful water. All unauthorised persons indispensable beryllium kept distant from operating pump sites,” it states.
It further mandates de-silting of pumps aft each spell of dense rainfall and mentation of work rosters astatine each pump house, intelligibly assigning responsibility.
