The Bhopal municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday razed a dilapidated overhead water tank at ward no 62 in Bharat Nagar. The water tank at Bharat Nagar was 30 years old and was in dilapidated condition.
Explosive experts Sharad Sharvate, City Engineer BK Choudhary and Assistant Engineer CK Dube managed and monitored the whole process. During the operation officials of BMC and police were present. All the arrangement for any kind of emergency were made. Police force was deployed to manage traffic and security in the area.
Around 10 kg of explosives were used to raze the overhead water tank in Bharat Nagar. The operation was completed successfully and was done with according to the planning. Taking precautionary measure nearby houses were evacuated.After the overhead water tank at Sai Baba Nagar had collapsed in the year 2012, Structure Engineer B Kameshwar Rao of Building and Research Centre, Roorkee had inspected all the overhead water tanks in the city and Sonagiri overhead water tank was marked as dangerous and was recommended to be demolished.
Another incident which occurred in the year 2012 in which few people were injured while razing a dilapidated water overhead tank administration took necessary steps to avoid any such mishap. Water overhead tanks at Shahjehanabad and 1100 quarters would be demolished, for which the arrangements are already being made by the authorities. Meanwhile, 138 complaints were resolved on a single day on Wednesday by BM helpline which were received through CM helpline. BMC Commissioner Tejawsi S Naik has instructed to resolve problems received through CM helpline at the earliest and the status of complaints is shared on daily basis with the BMC Commissioner.
The BMC helpline started to solve problems received from the citizens related with the basic facilities provided by the BMC in speedy manner.