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PWD cleaning storm water drains to avoid a repeat of last year's flooding
Nagpur: Backed by a Rs195 crore allocation in the 2025-26 Central Road Fund (CRF) and state budget, the state Public Works Department (PWD) division number 1 has begun an extensive pre-monsoon cleaning of storm water drains across Nagpur city and district along with construction of cement concrete (CC) roads and other road works at 17 locations.
The initiative follows severe flooding during last year's monsoon, when areas like Deendayal Nagar, Pratap Nagar, the Ring Road stretch, especially between Chhatrapati Square and Hingna T-point near Radheshyam showroom, and the Ambazari–Hingna stretch remained submerged for hours after heavy downpour. For the first time, PWD launched a systematic drive to clean both newly-constructed and existing CC drains under its jurisdiction.
Executive engineer Abhijit Kuchewar said cleaning work is under way on key routes including South Ambazari Road, Jaitala Road, Temple Road, and the New Railway Feeder Road. The highest allocation of Rs24 crore was made for the construction of cement road from Shatabdi Square to Manish Nagar, followed by Rs20 crore each for Jaitala and the Feeder Road. Temple and South Ambazari roads received Rs18 crore each, while several other stretches like Borgaon, Umred Road, and Zingabai Takli received between Rs3 crore and Rs15 crore.
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"In the South-West Constituency, near the Radheshyam showroom on Ring Road, a newly-constructed drain and pumping station by the EE PWD World Bank division is expected to reduce flooding significantly," said deputy engineer Avinash Gulhane adding, "We are focusing on saucer-shaped low-lying areas that are prone to water accumulation."
The PWD is currently working on storm water drains along 29 km of road length, while coordination efforts are under way with agencies like NMC, NHAI, NIT, and MahaMetro to ensure integrated drainage connectivity.
NMC's chief sanitation officer Dr Gajendra Mahalle emphasised the need for such preparedness in light of climate shifts. "Today's rain pattern has changed — the same volume that used to fall over three days now pours in a few hours.
Rapid discharge is the only solution," said Gulhane.
PWD teams are seen clearing drain chambers, removing construction debris and issuing coordination letters to link PWD drains with city-level trunk lines.
# 31K storm water chambers cleaned: NMC
As per Nagpur Municipal Corporation officials, 35,000 storm water chambers were identified for cleaning ahead of monsoon, out of which 31,724 have already been cleaned by the solid waste management department. These include regular chambers as well as those in rain-affected areas. Apart from this, the drains along major roads, such as the 3-kilometre stretch on Manewada Road, have also been desilted.
Although not all these areas have chambers, the entire stretch has been cleared for smooth water drainage.
Additionally, a 9-10 kilometres long major drain has been cleaned. Officials added that the desilting work in the trunk lines of the sewerage network is also under way, and 34 main trunk lines are expected to be cleared soon as part of the pre-monsoon preparations.
