Choked drains result in puddles of stagnant water on Karve Road, a serious health hazard; open storm water drains are a danger to passers-by

On Day Three of the MiD DAY campaign to identify monsoon-related problems and fix them in association with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Nal Stop on Karve Road, a spot that witnesses heavy traffic, was surveyed. The spot has been identified as having the highest air-pollution levels in the city because of vehicular smoke.

Now in the monsoon, water-logging adds tou00a0 commuters' problems.

Two big problem spots and one comparatively small problem spot were identified by our team. There are no parallel roads to Karve Road, which connects to Kothrud, Paud Road and Warje suburban townships.

PMC's assistant engineer Mustaq Shaikh, junior engineers Vinod Sonar, D N Jagtap, Sudhir Alurkar and local BJP corporator Medha Kulkarni were with MiD DAY to take a look at the problem areas and find a solution.

Survey results and proposed solutions

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Problem: Storm water always stagnates at this point as it is low-lying. If there is continuous rainfall for two hours, the whole corner gets water-logged and water starts reaching the entrance of the nearby shops. There are three storm water drains in the vicinity. Two of them are damaged as the drain covers are broken. The third drain is at a higher level than the road, and water cannot drain out from there as well.

PMC's promise: Shaikh promised to get the broken storm water chambers covered and also get channels made to ease out accumulated water into the drains. "We are putting tar on the undulations (potholes) on this spot," he said. "Replacing of the chambers will take time as we have to place fresh orders for strong iron manhole covers," said Sudhir Alurkar.