The officials of the public health department of the Municipal Corporation have come up with the final designs for the Storm Water Drain (SWD) project which will be started soon.
Mayor Koneru Sridhar and Municipal Commissioner G. Veerapandian on Saturday conducted an awareness meeting for the corporators on the ₹461-crore project at the Council hall.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Veerapandian said the city had been divided into seven basins under the SWD project. In the first phase, work related to the third and fifth basins would be completed. In a power-point presentation, he explained the properties and capacities of the drains.
The civic chief asked engineering officials to build drains at considerable depth to avoid accidents.
The third basin at a length of 49.31 km covers the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 19, 20, 21, 42 and 43 wards in important areas of Governorpet, Gunadala, N.T.R. Health University, Currency Nagar, Bharathi Nagar, Auto Nagar, S.B.I. Colony and Loyola College. Similarly, the fifth basin at a length of 68 km in 1, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58 and 59 wards covers Devi Nagar, Santosh Theatre, Rajiv Nagar, Payakapuram, Carmel Nagar, Excel Plant and other areas.
Stressing the need for awareness among the corporators on the project sanctioned by the State government, Mr. Sreedhar asked them to get back to him on the problems related to existing drains after meeting members of their divisions.
