Drained of ideas in Chennai
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
The Corporation of Chennai has only one method of cleaning the city's 1,660 km of storm water drains. And it is terribly out-of-date.
It is one of the most off-putting sights in ‘Singaara Chennai.' The Corporation of Chennai periodically removes silt or sludge from the hundreds of kilometres of storm water drains in the State capital, but the entire system is not even Victorian in its level of sophistication.
What is most surprising is the hypocrisy of the Corporation. It claims credit for how it goes about the job. According to the website of the civic body, the drains are maintained well. When they are cleaned "the removed silt is cleared immediately and transported to the designated place in departmental vehicles." As anyone who lives in Chennai knows, this is totally at variance with the truth.
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