Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed the Bombay High Court on Monday that it requires ₹55 lakh as premium to lease land for the second Doppler radar in the city.
A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice G.S. Kulkarni was hearing a public interest litigation filed by advocate Atal Bihari Dubey, highlighting the issues the city faces after receiving heavy rainfall.
The BMC informed the court that the site to install the Doppler radar had already been identified and the allotment letter had also been issued.
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The court suggested that the civic body should set up public address systems and take help of FM channels to give out information about floods and other disasters. The court also said that local news channels can be roped in to provide updates to citizens. The bench directed the administration to file an affidavit in four weeks about the measures it plans to take for such situations.
Earlier, the court had observed, “The civic body has already wasted a lot of time by not following court orders and not fulfilling commitments made by it before us. This is an important issue considering what happened in the city during the deluge in the past. I don’t want Mumbai to go dark again like in the past during monsoon. Life came to a standstill then. The city requires for this doppler radar system to be set up immediately.”