MUMBAI: The Bombay high court docket on Wednesday gave the civic administration until August finish to put protecting covers or grills on over 800 manholes in crucial spaces of town.
The court docket additionally directed BMC to steadily unfold awareness by hanging public carrier knowledge in newspapers, digital and digital social media.
The HC bench of Justices Ranjit More and Anuja Prabhudessai was listening to a PIL filed by retail traders’ federation after the demise of a number one Mumbai doctor after falling right into a manhole closing August.
The bench noticed that train services and products had been every now and then sluggish due to tracks blocked with trash or water. But the BMC recommend Anil Sakhare mentioned, “This 12 months due to efforts by each BMC and railways, there was in fact, no disruption due to water logging, though some services and products could have run relatively sluggish every now and then.’’
In June, the bench was disillusioned with civic motion at combating manhole fatalities and had called for a standing update file.
The civic frame, via its recommend Sakhare, submitted that it had known over 200 extra manholes that will be lined in flood prone spaces, taking the determine to just about 840. “About 85% work is entire and the little ultimate work, the BMC will entire by August finish,’’ he mentioned.
Ashish Mehta, attorney for petitioner had pointed to the truth that manholes in flood prone spaces had been but to be lined.
There are over 1400 manholes in flood prone spaces of town.
The BMC mentioned, for the primary time, ‘trash booms’ had been put in this 12 months to remove floating trash that obstructed water go with the flow from pumping stations and in addition, cameras put in at railway premises gave actual picture of silt volumes to be got rid of, thus leading to effective clean-up and minimum disruption of rail carrier.
The BMC mentioned, of the eight pumping stations, 5 had been operational at Haji Ali, Love Grove, Cleaveland, Britannia and Irla and one was half ready, while land acquisition process was on for the remainder two.
The court docket additionally directed BMC to steadily unfold awareness by hanging public carrier knowledge in newspapers, digital and digital social media.
The HC bench of Justices Ranjit More and Anuja Prabhudessai was listening to a PIL filed by retail traders’ federation after the demise of a number one Mumbai doctor after falling right into a manhole closing August.
The bench noticed that train services and products had been every now and then sluggish due to tracks blocked with trash or water. But the BMC recommend Anil Sakhare mentioned, “This 12 months due to efforts by each BMC and railways, there was in fact, no disruption due to water logging, though some services and products could have run relatively sluggish every now and then.’’
In June, the bench was disillusioned with civic motion at combating manhole fatalities and had called for a standing update file.
The civic frame, via its recommend Sakhare, submitted that it had known over 200 extra manholes that will be lined in flood prone spaces, taking the determine to just about 840. “About 85% work is entire and the little ultimate work, the BMC will entire by August finish,’’ he mentioned.
Ashish Mehta, attorney for petitioner had pointed to the truth that manholes in flood prone spaces had been but to be lined.
There are over 1400 manholes in flood prone spaces of town.
The BMC mentioned, for the primary time, ‘trash booms’ had been put in this 12 months to remove floating trash that obstructed water go with the flow from pumping stations and in addition, cameras put in at railway premises gave actual picture of silt volumes to be got rid of, thus leading to effective clean-up and minimum disruption of rail carrier.
The BMC mentioned, of the eight pumping stations, 5 had been operational at Haji Ali, Love Grove, Cleaveland, Britannia and Irla and one was half ready, while land acquisition process was on for the remainder two.
Put grills on manholes by August end: HC to BMC
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