More than 30,000 buildings in Vellore city are yet to install rainwater harvesting structures (RWH).
The Vellore Corporation had intensified the implementation of the rainwater harvesting structures system in the city since June 2013. Door-to-door checks, seminars, meetings, mobile campaigns and awareness rallies were held in the city, advising the general public to construct RWH structures in all buildings.
Corporation town planning officer M Kannan said, “There are a total of 93,504 buildings, including residential and commercial ones, in the city. Of this, as many as 63,189 buildings had RWH structures. This constitutes 64.14 per cent of the total buildings in the city.”
However, Kannan he said that the drive had been intensified again to ensure that all buildings install rainwater harvesting structures.
Corporation Commissioner P Janaki Raveendran said that several steps had been taken by the Corporation to ensure the installation of rainwater harvesting structures system in the buildings in the city, ahead of the rains. After the RWH systems were installed, the Corporation posted stickers to identify the buildings. This helped officials monitor implementation of the programme, she added.