MCDa continue to sleep despite people giving solutions

We are already in the last week of April and the monsoon season will begin in many parts of India within the next 60 days. Last year, you had shared your inputs on what needs to be done by municipal corporations to minimize water logging. Kindly note the solutions for water logging as identified by you below.Please call upon your municipal commissioner, or other area officials and set up time to ensure they are aware of the same.Also, if you have additional inputs on what cities can do now to be better prepared for rains, do share them. We look forward to your inputs! Solutions identified by citizens to address Water Logging: 1. A year-long maintenance schedule should be made to clean and desilt the drains and prepare them for the rainy season 2. Citizens should be trained on not throwing the garbage in the drains 3. The storm water drainage system should be refurbished 4. Roads which get water logged every season should be identified and water pumps should be installed clear the water 5. The broken pumps in underpasses and subways should be immediately repaired/changed 6. Roads should be made with the right slope so that the rain water could automatically slide down the drains 7. The good drainage systems of modern cities like New York should be studied and the findings should be implemented in Indian cities 8. More gardens and parks should be made so that the excess water could be absorbed. 9. The capacity of the drains should be increased 10. Roads dug should not be left open for more than 48 hours and proper barricading should be done to prevent accidents 11. A helpline should be started where citizens could report instances of water logging 12. Road maintenance should be carried out throughout the year 13. The civic agencies should be made accountable towards their work by introducing technology, community interface, citizen rating and reporting 14. The inter department coordination between civic agencies should be strengthened 15. For the violations for non-compliance by the developers apart from the penalties levied, the non-compliance should be removed 16. Road sanitation employees should make sure there are no plastic bags or clogging of drains 17. Manholes should have locks which can only be opened by the municipal employees.