NEW DELHI: The Public Works Department of the Delhi executive has directed its senior officers to talk over with their respective spaces throughout rains to test waterlogging.
The directives had been issued at a contemporary meeting, chaired by way of Engineer-in-Chief (E-in-C) Rakesh Kumar Agrawal, on more than a few issues.
According to the minutes of meeting, the sector gadgets of the department had been additionally directed to inform the centralised control room about waterlogging in spaces, regardless of the jurisdiction.
During the monsoon season, Delhi witnesses waterlogging on roads and businesses blame each different for now not taking concrete steps to stop the placement.
"It was once directed that in addition to subordinate field group of workers, superintendent engineers will have to additionally talk over with their respective websites throughout rains and take inventory of the location by way of themselves and mobilise groups for dealing with waterlogging issues.
"The respective MCDs will have to even be stored in loop while dealing with waterlogging issues," the minutes of meeting said.
It said that in the meeting, some officers pointed out that due to non-cleaning of smaller drains under jurisdiction of municipal corporations, the silt from those drains, throughout rains, achieve the already cleaned PWD drains due to which the department must do the desilting many times.
"The E-in-C directed that in instances where the work is held up due to issues of alternative civic businesses, the topic will have to be taken up with them in writing with proper main points, including photographs," it additionally said.
Last month, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had referred to as for putting in of a different function car (SPV) to wash the town's drains and prevent waterlogging on roads in the national capital.
Sisodia had mentioned the method of cleaning the drains being used by the PWD and the MCDs in many of the instances was once very "primitive".
He had additionally mentioned rubbish from drains was once stored by way of the road and was once then taken away when it dried up, adding that in the process a part of the rubbish again went again into the drain.
The directives had been issued at a contemporary meeting, chaired by way of Engineer-in-Chief (E-in-C) Rakesh Kumar Agrawal, on more than a few issues.
According to the minutes of meeting, the sector gadgets of the department had been additionally directed to inform the centralised control room about waterlogging in spaces, regardless of the jurisdiction.
During the monsoon season, Delhi witnesses waterlogging on roads and businesses blame each different for now not taking concrete steps to stop the placement.
"It was once directed that in addition to subordinate field group of workers, superintendent engineers will have to additionally talk over with their respective websites throughout rains and take inventory of the location by way of themselves and mobilise groups for dealing with waterlogging issues.
"The respective MCDs will have to even be stored in loop while dealing with waterlogging issues," the minutes of meeting said.
It said that in the meeting, some officers pointed out that due to non-cleaning of smaller drains under jurisdiction of municipal corporations, the silt from those drains, throughout rains, achieve the already cleaned PWD drains due to which the department must do the desilting many times.
"The E-in-C directed that in instances where the work is held up due to issues of alternative civic businesses, the topic will have to be taken up with them in writing with proper main points, including photographs," it additionally said.
Last month, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had referred to as for putting in of a different function car (SPV) to wash the town's drains and prevent waterlogging on roads in the national capital.
Sisodia had mentioned the method of cleaning the drains being used by the PWD and the MCDs in many of the instances was once very "primitive".
He had additionally mentioned rubbish from drains was once stored by way of the road and was once then taken away when it dried up, adding that in the process a part of the rubbish again went again into the drain.
Delhi PWD officials asked to check waterlogging
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