Nagpur: After years of recurring monsoon waterlogging and three consecutive years of flash floods across several parts of the city, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has launched an ambitious exercise to overhaul Nagpur’s stormwater drainage network. Municipal commissioner Vipin Itankar has entrusted chief engineer Leena Upadhey with preparing a stage-wise Storm Water Drainage Master Plan…
Nagpur: Those volunteering to plant saplings will now have to submit a self-affidavit committing to nurture and protect the trees after planting.Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to make individuals and institutions accountable for every sapling planted under its ambitious five-lakh-tree campaign.The decision follows the failure of past mass plantation attempts, where sapling survival rates…
Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) plans to build dedicated underground utility corridors beneath footpaths along newly reconstructed roads to eliminate repeated road digging for cables and pipelines.The proposal, initiated by municipal commissioner Vipin Itankar, will be implemented first along around 38km of roads in the south-west Assembly constituency under the Rs254.99-crore road restoration project….
