Jharkhand News: Medininagar civic body plans to cover drains with chequered tiles

THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK

Daltonganj, May 19: In a first-of-its-kind innovative venture, the Medininagar Municipal Corporation (MMC) is toying with the idea of covering its drainage with chequered tiles.

There is a long drainage starting from the corner of the main branch of the SBI down to the Chhoumuhan under the limits of the Medininagar Municipal Corporation.

This drainage is a little over 2 feet wide, but for being open, it is no walkway for the pedestrians, bikers and motorists.

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Anti-Skid Tiles to Improve Safety and Cleanliness

Once this drainage is covered with the chequered tiles, there will emerge a good walkway.

City Commissioner Md Jawed Husaain told the Jharkhand Story correspondent, “We are planning to have chequered tiles on the drainage. Chequered tiles are anti-skid and anti-slip. It’s too good for any walkway.”

Again, a drainage that is open is most vulnerable to all sorts of things that can choke or clog any drainage.

Chequered tiles save drainage from clogging or choking materials in it.

Besides, chequered tiles on drainages across the roads present a soothing optical relief.

Sources said the City Commissioner lives and breathes for the Medininagar as he wants this corporation and its people to have a near-par living in ease like that of big cities.

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City Beautification and Traffic Decongestion Efforts Underway

To ease the traffic chaos, the corporation has removed an old dilapidated structure housing cops at Chhoumuhan.

Now, the municipal corporation is all out to create a vendor zone there.

Similarly, near the water body at Nawa Toli, the municipal corporation has planned to build a fleet of outlets for fish and mutton/ chicken.

However, some deliberations are on in respect of the mutton shops for the procedure of halal and non-halal.

City Commissioner, when asked about the fish/ mutton outlets, said, “There is a water body there. Our prime concern is to keep that water body free of the residues of such raw food. We will see how we can better provide these eatables to our people without posing any environmental hazard to the water body.”

Sources said the City Commissioner, Md Jawed Husaain, is popularly known as “neighbour officer’ of the commoners here in Medininagar.