Krishna Babu inspects inundations prone areas of old city

Hyderabad, July 05: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner MT Krishna Babu, along with MLA Moazzam Khan and local Corporators visited Bahadurpura and Yakutpura and inspected areas which get inundated due to rains.

In view of rains which lashed the different parts of the city on Sunday evening, the MLA, GHMC Commissioner, Chief Engineer and local Corporators inspected inundated areas of Talab Katta, Jhangir Nagar, Aman nagar, Lilitha Bagh, Bilal nagar, Amjadulla nagar, Macca Colony of Bahadurpura constituency and several areas of Karwan constituency.

During the inspection, at Macca colony it is observed that the inundation caused due to some of drains were chocked.

To improve free flow of rain water, Commissioner instructed to take up remedial measures duly examining the reasons of the chokage, if necessary redesign and build the drains concerned.

During inspection, in Jahangir Nagar, Amjad Nagar and Kishan Bagh, Mr Krishna Babu instructed the Zonal Commissioner (South) Vandan Kumar, and the town planning officials to verify and remove encroachments and requested the MLA to cooperate in removal of encroachments.

In Bilal Nagar, the team inspected ongoing drain works.

In Lalitha Nagar, Commissioner instructed to check levels to maintain where the water stagnated. At Murkinala, he informed project officials to construct retaining wall and to expedite the work to complete at earliest.

Later Commissioner, directed to ensure that all manhole covers are intact and catch pit covers to be maintained properly. The visit lasted for 5 hours, the visit began from 9 AM to 2 PM.

——-Agencies