Mumbai: After waiting for almost two years to respond from the central salt commissioner, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now decided to build a crewed pump station on private land.
It has identified a plot of private land in a mahul and started the process to get it.
Pumping stations around RS 250-Crore planned near Mahul Creek will help pump excessive rain water from low areas in the middle and eastern part of the city, including the Circle of Raja, Gandhi Market, Wadala and Chembur.
TimesViewlester at the Mahul Pump Station has been delayed for several years even though it will bring single for lakh people affected by water in areas such as King’s circle, Gandhi Market, Wadala and Chembur.
All chronic flood spots in the city suffered many with road transportation and trains that were very beaten.
City corporations must carry out land acquisition quickly and quickly track projects.
“We need around four hectares (15,000 sq m) for a mahul pump station,” said V Velatan, said Municipal commissioner (project).
“We have conducted private-owned land-owned studies and found it technically reading to build a pump station.
We have now asked the development plan department to obtain land.
After obtaining, we do not need to wait for the salt commissioner,” Velatu added.
In 2019, BMC had planned to build a pump station on a crewed soil owned by the salt commissioner.
The following year, city corporation even decided to apply for disaster management actions to immediately take over the plot.
During this period BMC floated tenders for the pump station project was a crew, but had their memo because there was no response from the center for almost two years, despite some reminders.
In August 2020, Chairman of the Minister of Uddhav Thackeray increased the problem of waterlogging in a virtual meeting with PM Narendra Modi Days after parts of the city were flooded after rainfall was unrelenting.
Thackeray asked the Prime Minister to move the land owned by the center to the state of the state for pumping stations.
A senior civilian official said the proposal was submitted to the cabinet.
“Some questions grew up in the cabinet, but so far we have no permission, so we decided to get private land for the project instead,” officially added.
After the 2005 flood in Mumbai, the state government has appointed the Chitale Committee to investigate the reasons of flooding.
The panel recommends the pump station to spend water from the flood area to the sea during the rainy season.
Until now, Irla, Haji Ali, Cleveland, Lovegrove, Britannia, and Gazdarbandh pump stations have been built in the city.