GHMC gears up to tackle monsoon woes

​Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has embarked on an ambitious programme to train the newly recruited 200 Assistant Engineers on the techniques of designing roads. The main thrust of the programme is how to tackle the stagnation of water on the roads.

Prof Lakshman Rao, Director for Centre of Excellence on Disaster Management, JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad, will impart training to the engineers on the aspect . The training programme is basically an institute-cum-Industry interaction.

The GHMC is the first Municipal Corporation to conduct the training programme to the engineers on employing modern technologies to ensure good condition of roads. GHMC commissioner B Janardhan Reddy expressed his happiness over Prof Lakshman Rao devoted his energies to train the engineers.

Prof Lakshman Rao said each engineer would submit a detailed report on the causes that was leading to damage to roads and water stagnation on roads. They would also provide solutions to tackle the problem and estimates for carrying out repairs to the roads.

Elaborating on the programme, Prof Lakshman Rao said each engineer would inspect a 2 km stretch of road where water stagnation remained unsolved. In this way, all the 200 newly recruited engineers would adopt 200 such spots. They would plan for development of roads by using mapping technology to ensure that these roads are not inundated under water.

"As a part of interaction between industry and institute, Centre of Excellence on Disaster Management, JNTUHCEH, has proposed to prepare two and three dimensional maps after analysing the data", he said. The Centre of Excellence, JNTUHCEH and GHMC were providing funds. He said as much as Rs 30 lakh per each 2 km stretch of road where the stagnation of water problem persisted would be spent.