The Delhi government will deploy specialised sewer cleaning machines before the onset of monsoon to prevent waterlogging, Public Works Department Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh said on Sunday. The department will also use CCTV cameras to verify that the desilting of drains has been completed.
Delhi saw unprecedented flooding last year during the monsoons, with three UPSC aspirants dying as the basement of a coaching centre in Rajinder Nagar filled up with water.
Singh alleged that most of the drains and naalas in Delhi were not desilted for the past 10-20 years.
“Our effort now is to have state-of-the-art machines in every Assembly constituency to ensure thorough cleaning,” said the Minister while inspecting a trial run of a recycler machine in South Delhi’s Greater Kailash area.
According to officials, the machine has been brought from Mumbai and is capable of deep and thorough sewer cleaning without requiring any manual entry into the system.
“One of the key features that make this machine far superior to the traditional ones is its ability to simultaneously extract silt and dirty water from the sewer. The extracted water is treated within the machine and reused for jetting, thereby drastically reducing water consumption,” the government said in a statement.
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