On September 19, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal unveiled a Rs 57,000 crore Delhi Drainage Master Plan 2025, a 30-year solution for urban flooding that aims to reduce instances of waterlogging and flooding by 50% in the next five years.

Here’s what experts say about the plan

‘Positive step, but focus on wetlands, using modern tech would help’: A K Jain

It is a positive step. Finally, after nearly 50 years, a Drainage Master Plan has been finalised. The last such plan was made in 1976, when the population of Delhi was just 30 lakh; it’s now more than seven times that number.

This new plan has been prepared rather quickly. Notably, it has altered fundamental aspects like drainage boundaries — earlier there were six drainage basins, they have now been merged int

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