A CORRESPONDENT mailbag@ mid- day. com THE Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( BMC) in its budget has proposed exploring a new technology wherein gate pumps will be installed at the mouths of nullahs to minimise the tidal effect in the city during the monsoon.
The idea has been proposed keeping in mind the space constraints in Mumbai and it will also nullify the need for cutting mangroves to construct a large number of pumping stations.
While the BMC was to construct eight pumping stations in the city after the Chitale Committeeu2019s recommendations following the . . . u009d Mumbai flood, the civic body has managed to construct six.
Further, the civic body has started installing back rack or wiremesh screens at Irla and Lovegrove nullahs to prevent floating garbage from entering the sea.
For the upcoming monsoon, a provision of R u009d . crore, R . . crore and R u0090 u00a2 crore has been proposed in the budget for desilting of major nullahs, minor nullahs and the Mithi River, respectively.
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