The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has kickstarted a massive drive to desilt the clogged network of sewers in the city and made all efforts to ensure t hat corporators play a prominent role in executing the works.
Here’s an opportunity for corporators to play a crucial role in preventing their wards from getting waterlogged during the coming monsoon. The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has kickstarted a massive drive to desilt the clogged network of sewers in the city and made all efforts to ensure that corporators play a prominent role in executing the works.
For the first time, the BWSSB has released a detailed schedule for cleaning up 50,000 manholes in the city for the next one month.
The schedule gives details of how many jetting vehicles would be earmarked for a ward on a particular day and is expected to make things easier for the corporator to focus on desilting the drains in his constituency.
“In the previous schedules, we would mention only the division and the subdivision. For the first time, we are mentioning the ward numbers also so that co-ordination with the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will be easier. Now, there is no excuse for corporators to not be part of the desilting drive,” said BWSSB engineer-in-chief T Venkatraju.
The process has been made transparent. There will be no question of sanitary workers asking for money from citizens as BBMP and BWSSB engineers will be present at the site. That’s a big advantage and difference this time, engineers said.
Citizens too can be part of the initiative, get manholes prone to overflowing cleaned. About 500 people will be engaged in cleaning manholes this month. The overall cost is Rs50 lakh, the minister said.
During rains, as a quick solution to waterlogging, people tend to remove the lid of manholes so water goes into the drains. This causes water to gush in and show up elsewhere. After desilting, these instances will be few, engineers said. The board is also facing the challenge of cables being laid in drains by private companies without its permission.
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