Ahmedabad saw nearly 36 instances of road cave-ins during pre-monsoon this year as against one in the same period last year, data from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) shows. Last year, the city witnessed 98 cave-in incidents in the entire monsoon.
According to sources in the drainage department, between May 1 and June 14, the city has seen the roads cave in at 36 places — a steep rise from the 19 reported until June 6, as reported by The Indian Express.
Amit Patel, Additional City Engineer, who is in charge of maintaining the drainage system, said the civic body “is introducing new technologies for the rehabilitation of the drainage system”.
