Bhubaneswar, May 5: IIT Roorkee has offered to help both the development authority and the municipal corporation here to develop and strengthen the city's drainage network.

An official communication from N.K. Goel, professor of Bharat Singh Chair of Water Resources at IIT Roorkee, which reached the state housing and urban development department today, proposed to assess and offer solutions to various drainage problems of the city.

"Quite often, the hydrological designs of the proposed and detailed project reports are not technically sound. This results in either high cost of the project or failure of the project because of under-design," wrote Goel. "The expert group of IIT Roorkee would be willing to review and strengthen the hydrological aspects of the projects being planned by your organisation."

"We received the letter and forwarded it to the civic body as well as the development authority of the city," said an official of the housing and urban development department.

"Jica is already developing the drainage and sewer network of the city with the help of state's water supply and sewerage board. If the experts of the premier institute want to help in the drainage projects, we will certainly welcome them. We will talk to our drainage division too," said mayor Ananta Narayan Jena.

Although the city has never faced any major drainage disaster, the situation becomes difficult during the monsoon, when parts of the city witnessed major waterlogging.