Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to come up with long-term action plan to revamp the drainage system in the capital city.
According to BMC Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Singh, the civic body has identified as many as 75 locations in the city, which are vulnerable to flooding during the monsoon and heavy rains.
The BMC Commissioner urged the engineers to find out the cause of water logging in the vulnerable areas in the recent incessant rains and come up with permanent solutions for it.
He said that long-term plans will be prepared which will involve land acquisition for widening of the drainage channels.
The civic body will follow the guidelines of Supreme Court, National Green Tribunal, State Pollution Control Board while revamping the drainage systems in the city, he added.