Minister directs officials to clean drains before rains

Jaipur: Transport minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Thursday inspected the drainage system of Sushilpura area. After receiving many complaints by residents of the area of choking drains, Khachariyawas along with officials of Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) and Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) inspected the area.
People have complained that due to lack of cleanliness of drains, sewage water is entering their houses.Khachariyawas ordered the municipal officials to clean up the drains in the entire area before the arrival of monsoon, to resolve this long-standing issue and provide relief to people.
“Due to the coronavirus outbreak and lockdown, all civic work was put on hold. But now with the opening up of economy, construction of roads and cleaning up of drains must become a priority of JDA and JMC officials. When the work will start progressing, it will provide employment to people,” said Khachariyawas.
JMC has already taken up the process of cleaning drains in the city. The contract has already been given to workers to clean 800 drains and 20 big nullahs. However, the contract was given in the month of May and monsoon is expected to arrive in June end. Usually, it takes three months to complete the task, but with only a month left, it is considered to be a difficult task to complete.
Block president Manoj Mudgal, JDA directors Virendra Singh Sunda and N C Mathur, additional chief engineer Devendra Gupta, B D Shama and others were present.