A major reason for the flooding was choked drains with silt and mud being washed down in open drains, ones that either don't have any cover or if they do it's broken. There are at least 10 such open drains on the stretch.
The civic administration on Tuesday sent a team of at least 25 labourers and civic engineers to attend the problem of Wadala bridge, which was water-logged for five consecutive days after heavy rains. The move has come after the report in dna on Tuesday.
Communication gap between different departments within the F-north ward office and civic officials' apathy had left the area's residents to deal with the flooded bridge for days. Officials from the ward and roads department (central agency) had kept passing the buck to each other.
A major reason for the flooding was choked drains with silt and mud being washed down in open drains, ones that either don't have any cover or if they do it's broken. There are at least 10 such open drains on the stretch.
Residents claimed that for five days no official bothered to figure out the exact cause of the flooding. Only after being pressured by civic activists, officials hit the ground and addressed the problem by removing the silt and flushing the drains. However, the issue remained unsolved. Civic officials struggled to clean the choked drains after witnessing that the silt and mud kept going in with every bout of rain owing to absence of covers.
Deputy municipal commissioner Sudhir Naik, on reading the report, immediately contacted assistant commissioner Keshav Ubale and civic activist and F-north coordinator of AGNI Nikhil Desai to understand the issue.
Naik said Desai has been helping the BMC to identify the problems so that corrective measures can be taken. "We appreciate his efforts. We have started addressing the issue so that citizens can get relief," Naik told dna.
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