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Delhi: The Delhi government has unveiled a Drainage Master Plan that proposes the construction of ‘silt traps’ along major drains to prevent waterlogging.

The initiative, aimed at modernising the city’s outdated drainage infrastructure, is inspired from a successful pilot project in Chennai.

“We constructed ‘silt traps’ in drains in Chennai a few years ago as an experiment which brought a drastic decrease in waterlogging episodes in the city,” said Gyanasis Jena, one of the private consultants hired by the government to prepare the plan.

According to the plan, traps will be constructed as separate chambers at a lower level alongside the drains, where silt carried by stormwater can accumulate, preventing it from clogging the main drainage line, Jena said.

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