IIT Madras designs city drains
Three years is required for completion of the project.
Vijayawada: The IIT Madras has designed plans to create better and suitable drainage system for Vijayawada city.
After the Union ministry of urban development released Rs 461 crore for storm water project, the IIT Madras designed it as they have realtime experience from recent heavy rains and floods which had devastated Chennai.
The IIT Madras submitted a plan for storm water project which is intended to solve water logging problem. Water is stagnated visibly in the city every rainy season. The municipal department sped up plans to avoid the problem with expertise plans and Central funds.
According to officials, the IIT Madras and the officials of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) submitted a technical report to the state government. Technical sanction is only required to begin storm water drainage project works. Water logging is a major problem for the citizens, especially the city roads are inundated even from normal to moderate rains.
The city’s main areas like Beasent Road, Bandar Road, Eluru Road, Mogulrajapuram, Governerpet, Patamata, Autonagar, Government ITI, One Town, Kaleswararao Market, Jakkampudi YSR Colony, Singhnagar, and various important centres across the city face the problem of water stagnation during the rainy season. Poor drainage system always leads to disruption of transportation.
One Town drainage system had been established long ago and the drains are not connected to the outflow point properly. Moreover, the underground drainage system and sluice treatment plants have not been completed so far. As a result, the sewage also comes into open drains and finally it stops rain water movement.
The situation has been continuing in the city for several years but the VMC failed to take up works due to lack of funds. Now that the Union ministry of urban development released Rs 461 crore for the project, the citizens can find relief from the problem.
The local body plans to complete the works in the next three years, said an official on condition of anonymity. He said that they suggested to the VMC to take precautions not to let sewage enter the open drains. Moreover, the city has advantage of having three major canals and Budameru channel.
The IIT experts opined that there will be no problem if the city faces any severe threat from heavy rains in future. The water could be diverted throgh the drains.