BMC’s focus on unclogging nullahs in flood-prone areas
To prevent flooding during monsoon, the BMC has planned to desilt nullahs located in the flood-prone areas in the second week of May. The aim is to ensure that all silt, muck and sediments are removed so that there is no waterlogging during heavy rains, said the civic official. Meanwhile, the BMC completed 72% desilting of drains till Monday. It has set a target to remove 13.1 lakh metric tonnes (MT) silt by March 2025; 10.2 MT will be removed by May 31 this year.
The civic body has appointed get flooded will be on our priority 31 agencies at a whopping list,” said a senior civic cost of Rs249 to unclog all the official. The teams will carry major and minor nullahs, the out the exercise after May 15 drains adjoining the two expressways and the focus will be more on and the Mithi qualitative work, with more river. The desilting exercise is machinery to ensure a floodfree carried out throughout the LIVID CONG monsoon, the official year to remove muck that MOVES added. EC blocks the smooth flow of water. As per the civic data, some slows down the force of of the flood-prone areas are water and results in overflowing Kalanagar Junction, Sion during heavy rains in the road no 24, King Circle station, monsoon. “Despite desilting Chandanwadi Nala, Air India of nullahs last year, we observed Road, Jogeshwari and Khar the city's drains were expressways and Andheri subway. choked with garbage, large In June 2023, cupboards, amounts of plastic, cloth and beds and even a 165-litre refrigerator wooden items. So, the unclogging were found in Mogra of nullahs that usually nullah during rains.