4 workers shifted to GH
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The four labourers who suffered injuries while desilting a storm water drain on RP Road on Thursday were shifted to the Gandhi Hospital. The search and rescue team of the fire department, GHMC’s emergency wing and the police found the body of the fifth worker, Devraj, at another blockage in the drain at General Bazaar.
The deceased’s co-workers alleged they had not been trained to clean manholes and were being forced to do so. GHMC officials, however, denied this. Assistant commissioner of police G. Vasu Sena said that a case will be registered based on the complaint of the victim’s family and an inquiry will be initiated. Mayor Mohamm-ed Majid Hussain and GHMC special commissioner Navin Mittal later visited the spot.
Uma Devi, a resident of Nala Bazaar, complained to the officials that the nala hadn’t been cleaned in the last few years despite complaints to the civic body. “Even when there is little rain, our houses get flooded. On Monday, our entire ground floor was filled with drain water. There was almost five feet of water. GHMC started cleaning only after the main road got flooded,” she said. In the Nala Bazaar area, the drain is not fenced and garbage is thrown directly into it. The Kalasiguda Nala was built during the Nizam’s time. Starting at Regimental Bazaar, it goes through Kalasiguda, MG Road, Nallagutta, Kachi-bowli, Ambedkarnagar, Buddha Bhavan before reaching Hussainsagar near Marriott Hotel.
GHMC blamed for irregular clearance
The GHMC is squarely to be blamed for the death of Devraj in a storm water drain near Rashtrapathi Road in Secunderabad on Thursday. Though the National Disaster Management Authority has been repeatedly stressing on the need to complete pre-monsoon desilting and cleaning of drains before May, so that early rains, will wash away any obstacles, the sluggish official machinery has never met the target to date.
Besides improper desil-ting, irregular clearance of garbage and building debris has clogged the drain in the city. During the monsoon months, the uncleared garbage and building debris dumped on the roads flows into the drains obstructing the flow of water. Two major project reports of master plans, including remodelling storm water drains, are available with GHMC, one by Kirloskar Consultants for the core city and a comprehensive one by Voyants Solutions for surrounding municipalities, the work on which is not completed yet.
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