Race on to clear drains before monsoon

Extended rain during summer has hampered the effort

With monsoon rains hardly a week away from hitting the Kerala coast, the city Corporation as well as the various departments have been racing against time to clear up the canals and drains in the flood-prone regions in the city. The uncharacteristically extended rains during the summer has hampered some of these efforts. After addressing the immediate concerns within the coming week, the engineers of the Corporation and the Irrigation department are scheduled to meet within a month to prepare a detailed estimate of the long-term works to be taken up in the flood-prone regions in the city. This will be submitted to the State government to be considered as a special case for fund allocation in the budget, in a manner similar to Operation Anantha flood mitigation programme that was taken up in the capital in 2015.