As monsoons are expected to arrive in Delhi by the last week of June, the Public Works Department has intensified preparations to prevent waterlogging and to ensure readiness for the upcoming rainy season.
Dilip Kumar Baidya, engineering chief of the state public works department (PWD), has been transferred to the Netaji Subhas Administrative Training Institute (NSATI) at Salt Lake raising eyebrows of many senior officials in the PWD.
Currently, the helpline number of NDMC, which is 311, will become a unified helpline for multiple departments after linking them to one command & control centre ahead of monsoons.
Fundamental issues of traffic congestion were discussed in detail during the deliberations on ways to improve traffic management in the capital from a scientific perspective.
In a clear message to government servants that negligence towards their duties will not be tolerated, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has approved the suspension of a PWD Executive Engineer (Civil) with immediate effect.
Officials have been instructed to present an action plan to deal with water-logging within a week.
The machine, sourced from Mumbai, is capable of deep and thorough cleaning of sewer pipelines and does not require the entry of a person into the sewerage system.
Taking to social media platform X, the minister recalled that in his first meeting with the PWD Department a month ago, he had inquired about the existing helpline number. He was surprised to find that officials struggled to recall the ten-digit number, highlighting its inefficiency.
While inspecting roads in Patparganj, he found that the drains along NH 9 (Service Lane), also known as NH 24, were in a severely neglected state, with no visible maintenance work being carried out.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, along with Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena and PWD minister Parvesh Verma, on Sunday, inspected major drains of the city and directed concerned officials to ensure timely completion of the de-silting work so that people do not have face water-logging problems during the monsoon.
