6K new road gullies to prevent waterlogging in Gurugram soon
The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) is planning to strengthen the existing rainwater drainage system on all major roads in Gurugram city to tackle the problem of waterlogging during the monsoon.
A proposal is under consideration to construct 6,000 new road gullies and strengthen the existing storm water drainage system.
GMDA Chief Engineer Rajesh Bansal said he asked his subordinates to prepare a detailed project report along with the estimates of expenditure for all major roads prone to waterlogging in the metropolitan city.
He said the pattern of rainfall had changed in the past few years forcing them to upgrade the existing infrastructure of drainage system. Earlier, the intensity of rainfall used to be slow spread over days. In the past few years, the intensity of rainfall had increased with duration of the downpour decreased to just few hours. This change in pattern - heavy rainfall in few minutes or hours - causes waterlogging and puts a burden on the existing drainage system.
“GMDA is planning to increase the number of road gullies due to the change in pattern of rainfall. With an increase in road gullies, rainwater will easily flow into drains,” Rajesh Bansal said.
He said: “There is a plan to construct road gullies at a distance of every 10 metres on main roads. At present, road gullies are situated at a distance of 50 metres. Moreover, most of the road gullies get blocked with the passage of time. All existing road gullies will also be cleaned properly ahead of the monsoon so as to ensure proper movement of water into drains”.
A proposal to construct 1,000 road gullies on roads in Sectors 58 to 62; 1,100 in Sectors 60 to 67; 1,000 in Sectors 46 to 51; 700 road gullies in Sectors 44 to 56; 1,500 in Sectors 31 to 45; and 1,000 road gullies in Sectors 25 to 44 was under consideration of the infrastructure development authority.
It may be mentioned that the total length of roads maintained by the GMDA is 360 kilometres in the city.
Last year, the government had approved Rs 124 crore for storm water drain networks in Sectors 68 to 80, Sectors 37C and 37D and Sectors 112 to 115. The work on these drains is underway.
The GMDA is also reconstructing the master storm water drain between Rezang La Chowk and railway culvert 47 at a cost of Rs 13.9 crore. The project is likely to be completed by the end of this year.
The construction work on a 5-km drain between Vatika Chowk and NH-8 along Southern Peripheral Road at a cost Rs 105 crore is likely to be completed soon. It will reduce burden on the existing Badshahpur drain.
