Squall triggers flood, then wait for deluge

HYDERABAD: Residents in Hyderabad might face a tough time this rainy season as civic government are struggling with monsoon preparedness with handiest 40% of nala desilting paintings being finished yet and restoration works touching on roads is handiest midway through.

A staggering Rs 1,120 crore was once allotted for complete facelift of town roads and time limit was once set as June 10. But with IMD announcing advancement of monsoon, task seems difficult for GHMC. “We took up roads that have been dug-up for laying water pipelines and restored it totally. Filling of potholes has been finished in lots of areas and in some places we're laying of BT layer, which is yet to be finished,” mentioned Mohan Nayak, HRDC leader engineer.

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Civic government should deploy teams and end pending paintings quickly, dug-up roads and poor restoration paintings will add to the distress of commuters. Contractors who failed to fulfill the time limit to desilt nalas should be penalised and blacklisted.




Another major a part of monsoon preparedness is desilting of nalas, however handiest 40% of nalas have been lined yet. Many water-logging issues are identified, however several issues in peripheral areas have now not been fixed.


After rain on Wednesday night, residents of Shirdi Nagar colony in Malkajgiri and low-lying areas in LB Nagar circle despatched SOS messages to TOI. “There is rarely any time left for monsoon preparedness and the placement is much the same,” JLN Murty, president of a colony despatched a message.


Meanwhile, the condition at Model House, govt district hospitals in King Koti is better this 12 months as government took up diversion of traces and have been in a position to scale back water stagnation in those places.


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