The city civic authorities on Tuesday asked the NHAI to undertake urgent short-term and long-term measures to solve the problem of waterlogging near the Iskcon temple at Nayapalli.
Due to lack of proper outlet of rainwater coming from the entire catchment of the Nayapalli area, the NH near the Iskcon temple remains submerged during heavy rains.
The civic and development authorities asked the NHAI to take up cleaning and de-silting measures of the adjoining drains near NH-16 and also put pumps on standby mode and deploy them immediately in case of heavy rains.
The NHAI was also directed to devise a long-term solution as the flyover dividing the entire area has come up like a great barrier, making the water flow minimal from one side to the other.
It has become a necessity to have a proper and robust drainage system to drain out the extra water from the catchment of Nayapalli and nearby localities from the waterlogging zone so that in case of heavy rains water starts flowing instead of accumulating there.