The Hindu 29.10.2013
GVMC comes in for praise
Improving storm water drains spending crores of rupees, removing the bottlenecks in drains and de-silting has led to heavy inflow of water draining out of low-lying areas quickly, Municipal Commissioner M.V. Satyanarayana has said.
Earlier a relatively less rainfall used to flooding of low-lying areas and causing loss to properties but in spite of incessant and heavy rain for a week such submergence was not witnessed, he said.
Several people’s representatives have congratulated the GVMC officials for the effort, Mr. Satyanarayana told officials in his daily interaction from the call centre in the morning.
He congratulated officials of all departments and employees for being on their toes and taking steps on a war-footing during the week-long rain.
However, it should not give room for complacency and they should be ready to face any contingency, he told them.
