CHENNAI: After the December 2015 deluge, a sense of dread descends pall-like over Chennai with each and every heavy downpour. There’s a excellent reason: It’s clear that the city continues to be not prepared to avert any other disaster in sustained rainfall of the kind that sank it two and a part years ago.
A fund crunch has hexed an bold 217-km flood-mitigation drainage mission by Greater Chennai Corporation to fix just about 217km of missing hyperlinks within the town’s 1,892-km drain community. The civic body came up with the plan on a 2016 survey document.
“Several drains are encroached upon and many are blocked due to garbage and debris or are dilapidated,” a senior engineer said. This has brought about gaps within the storm water drain community, which causes waterlogging, he said. The mission was supposed to create hyperlinks between present drains and attach others at the town’s periphery.
The civic body planned the mission in two stages. The first involves the re-laying of drains mostly within the suburbs at a value of Rs204 crore; the second, Rs196 crore in upkeep of 147km of drains within the core town, an reliable said.
The corporation despatched the proposal to state funding agencies however is but to get the go-ahead.
Senior officials said part of the mission comprises area-based construction in T Nagar, which the corporation will execute below the Smart City Mission. “The Smart City board has sanctioned the Rs125-crore plan,” the reliable said. “A high-power committee is but to sanction the mission as an in depth mission document isn't in a position.”
Activists are worried that the mission isn't a significant priority for the federal government. “We’ve seen what happened in Mumbai recently and confronted floods in Chennai,” civic activist V S Jayaraman said, “but the executive is reluctant to fund the tasks.”
Lack of price range has additionally hit any other key measure to prevent flooding — the integrated storm water drain mission overlaying the Kosasthalaiyar, Cooum, Adyar and Kovalam basins.
The corporation has built 378km of drains alongside the Cooum and Adyar with budget from the World Bank. But the civic body continues to be waiting for a funding tie-up for the 2 other basins.
A fund crunch has hexed an bold 217-km flood-mitigation drainage mission by Greater Chennai Corporation to fix just about 217km of missing hyperlinks within the town’s 1,892-km drain community. The civic body came up with the plan on a 2016 survey document.
“Several drains are encroached upon and many are blocked due to garbage and debris or are dilapidated,” a senior engineer said. This has brought about gaps within the storm water drain community, which causes waterlogging, he said. The mission was supposed to create hyperlinks between present drains and attach others at the town’s periphery.
The civic body planned the mission in two stages. The first involves the re-laying of drains mostly within the suburbs at a value of Rs204 crore; the second, Rs196 crore in upkeep of 147km of drains within the core town, an reliable said.
The corporation despatched the proposal to state funding agencies however is but to get the go-ahead.
Senior officials said part of the mission comprises area-based construction in T Nagar, which the corporation will execute below the Smart City Mission. “The Smart City board has sanctioned the Rs125-crore plan,” the reliable said. “A high-power committee is but to sanction the mission as an in depth mission document isn't in a position.”
Activists are worried that the mission isn't a significant priority for the federal government. “We’ve seen what happened in Mumbai recently and confronted floods in Chennai,” civic activist V S Jayaraman said, “but the executive is reluctant to fund the tasks.”
Lack of price range has additionally hit any other key measure to prevent flooding — the integrated storm water drain mission overlaying the Kosasthalaiyar, Cooum, Adyar and Kovalam basins.
The corporation has built 378km of drains alongside the Cooum and Adyar with budget from the World Bank. But the civic body continues to be waiting for a funding tie-up for the 2 other basins.
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