Ahead of the monsoon season, Anindita Mitra, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh on Wednesday stated that MCC has already cleaned 85% of all the road gullies in the city and shall clean the remaining within 10 days. Also, 18 teams to control flood/water logging throughout the city have been constituted. The Commissioner took a progress report from the Superintending Engineer, Public Health wing in which he stated that the target date to complete the annual cleaning work of road gullies in various sectors/rehabilitation colonies/villages is of July 7. As per progress report, presently 30,000 road gullies out of total 35,000 road gullies (85%) stands cleaned and to meet the target date and owing to Monsoon, more labour has been deployed to complete the work by July 7.
