J&K Govt kick starts ₹134-cr drainage system in Srinagar

To strengthen the urban flood management infrastructure across flood-prone areas of the city, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has started work on a new drainage project financed by the World Bank. The project, which has been sanctioned ₹134 crore by the multilateral fund body, was assigned to the J-K ERA (Economic Reconstruction Agency) and is based on scientific inputs given by the stakeholders for the construction of a comprehensive storm water drainage network. Syed Abid Rasheed, CEO of the J-K ERA informed that the scheme was envisaged to prevent flooding in low-lying areas of Srinagar. The advanced drainage system will prevent such problems from happening again. The project includes the construction of four large drainage schemes stretching across 80 km in and around Srinagar.