New Delhi: The memories of a water logged Mumbai just grow stronger with the approaching rain clouds.
Hence in the frantic pre-monsoon countdown of getting civic infrastructure in place, BMC has added some state of the art technology to its armoury to help detect rainfall patterns across the city.
In fact, to get the system up and running, firemen from Wadala have even given up their weekly offs without any complaints for a lesson in managing the newly computerised rain gauge system.
The BMC has installed 30 rain gauges like across the city which will send live data four times an hour to a central computer in the Disaster Management Cell at the BMC Headquarters, forewarning the authorities about any impending calamity.
" Till last year we were collecting all this data manually now it's been computerized. The data will be coming to us every 15 minutes,” says Assistant Municipal Commissioner RA Rajeev.
Priced at over Rs 2 lakh each, the instrument will help BMC get additional information like windspeed and direction that will predict the areas that may be most affected. This, in turn, will prevent large-scale devastation with only a two percent error margin.
The BMC hopes this time they will be better prepared.
"If the rainfall is more than 10 cm then we alert the fire brigade and our rescue teams etc,” says A J Dave of the Disaster Management Cell.
Considering just a fraction of the pre monsoon preparations are in place, chances are that Mumbai will be under water again.
But this time around, at least Mumbaikars will have the satisfaction of knowing just how deep it is.
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