With the monsoon approaching, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has speed up the process of desilting of its drains to avoid water logging.
The civic body claimed to have achieved 95 per cent of its target in desilting drainage under its jurisdiction.
SDMC mayor Sunita Kangda on Tuesday inspected some of the drains and directed officials to expedite the de-silting process.
She also directed to repair the drains situated at Ambedkar Nagar and Rajpur Khurd.
The civic body is responsible of cleaning drains with a maximum width of 60 feet besides a few big drains. There are other agencies in the city which is responsible to maintain drains. Public Works Department (PWD) maintains drains which are 60 feet wide and above.
The Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC)?department is responsible to maintain larger drains.