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Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments and Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority Chairman P.K. Sekarbabu inspected desilting enactment successful the Buckingham Canal successful Royapuram Zone, to guarantee creaseless travel of rainwater.
According to a property release, the Minister besides reviewed rainfall preparedness and sanitation measures successful the country and interacted with residents to place section needs. In Royapuram Zone, astir 1.2 km of the Buckingham Canal was being desilted.
Mayor R. Priya told reporters that pre-monsoon preventive enactment was nether mode crossed the metropolis and that astir 6cm of rainfall was recorded during Deepavali, and officials were conducting zonal reviews with legislators and councillors.
As galore arsenic 2,000 roadworthy locations with potholes had been identified and repairs were ongoing. Further, 206 low-lying areas were identified, wherever 100 HP centrifugal pumps had been installed.
Relief centres were being arranged with food, bedding and aesculapian facilities. With upgraded stormwater drains, Chennai could present drain up to 15 cm of rainfall immediately, with further pumps to beryllium utilized during dense downpours, she said.
