While Mumbaikars are preparing themselves for rains, even the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) is bracing for monsoon. In order to avoid water logging in south Mumbai due to the ongoing metro 3 construction work, it has installed 340 de-watering pumps at metro sites.
According to Asian Age, the BMC’s stormwater drains (SWD) department, in its pre-monsoon inspection of metro 3 construction sites, had informed the MMRC to take necessary precautions to avoid waterlogging, which included installation of de-watering pumps. Ashwini Bhide, managing director, MMRC, told the leading daily, “We have installed 340 de-watering pumps along the entire corridor starting from Cuffe Parade to Seepz to avoid waterlogging. The work is being carried out underground and it is necessary that rainwater is pumped out”.
It was in the last monsoon, people from areas like Cuffe Parade, Worli and Shivaji Park, which never saw water logging in the past, had minor water logging due to metro 3 work being carried out. The Metro 3 (Colaba-Bandra-Seepz) corridor is underground and work is being carried out in full swing. When completed, the 33.5-km long line will be the first underground metro line in Mumbai. The metro line will connect Cuffe Parade business district in the extreme south of the city to SEEPZ in the north-central with 26 underground and one at-grade station.
