In a move to avert water logging and flooding related eventuality due to in case of heavy rains during the upcoming G20 summit, four heavy duty mobile dewatering trucks, specially borrowed from Ahmedabad, have been deployed at ITPO and Raj Ghat.
These vehicles equipped with high capacity suction pumps have been brought in by Delhi Fire Services (DFS) to deal with any contingency like the one recently, where the area in and around the Raj Ghat and ITPO were submerged after heavy rains, officials said here on Monday.
Delhi Lt Governor(LG) V K Saxena during his review meetings in run up to the G-20 Summit, had repeatedly stressed upon putting in place a comprehensive and fool proof contingency plan in and around the G-20 venues to deal with water logging in the city, in case it rains heavily during the event. On Sunday, the LG accompanied Principal Secretary to the PM P.K. Mishra and personally inspected these vehicles stationed at ITPO.
Two such vehicles each have been deployed at Raj Ghat and ITPO and can be moved anywhere as per the requirement.
Each of these vehicles is capable of high speed water suction at the rate of 10,000 liters per minute from a radius of 15 meter.
Once completely loaded with fuel, these vehicles can operate for 24 hours continuously.
These diesel run vehicles are equipped with BS-VIengines of 60 BHP capacity at 1500 RPM and are minimally polluting, both in terms of emission and noise pollution, being run at a noise level of 85dBA at 7m.
Delhi Fire Service will be procuring such vehicles on a permanent basis eventually.