The Strategic Nala Development Programme (SNDP) works, wherever they have been completed within the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits, have helped prevent flooding to a large extent, as seen from the ground.
The SNDP was taken up as a firefighting measure post the devastating floods of October 2020 and involved securing the neglected and encroached stormwater drains wherever possible, and providing alternative solutions where widening was not a solution.
Though the current spate of rains has manifested in another nightmare of flooding and traffic jams, residents from areas where SNDP works are completed are thankful that they are not part of it. “Since the pipelines were laid transferring the flows to the Bandlaguda Lake, we are able to sleep peacefully without fear of inundation. Earlier, there would be this constant fear that the supplies would perish if the shop got flooded,” said P.Chandrashekhar, a grocery store owner in Mansurabad.
