Drain desilting starts early, min checks progress

The Public Works Department (PWD) has started the drain desilting exercise well before monsoon, officials familiar with the matter said, expecting the exercise to be completed by mid-June.

- Snehil Sinha

NEW DELHI: The Public Works Department (PWD) has started the drain desilting exercise well before monsoon, officials familiar with the matter said, expecting the exercise to be completed by mid-June.

Following meetings with officials in this regard, Delhi PWD minister Parvesh Verma on Saturday inspected drainage construction work at Rohtak Road—a key road between Delhi and Haryana—and officials said the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will take control of it once the work has been completed.