Cuttack, June 7: With monsoon supposed to hit the state in a few days, the corporation is ready to tackle any kind of waterlogging in the city.

The southwest monsoon had already hit Kerala on Friday marking the start of rains, four days behind schedule.

Among the 275 de-watering pumps to be used across the city, 12 have been installed for the first time at stations in areas that witness waterlogging.

"Last year, we got complaints from many residents regarding inadequate number of water pumps. This time, we have procured 91 pumps for Rs 4.5 crore. The pumps will be put in place within the next day or two," municipal commissioner Gyanaranjan Das said.

In 2013, the corporation had pressed into service 157 pumps and less than 200 pumps were used last year.

The high-power diesel pumps ranging from 24HP to 10HP to 5HP have been earmarked for low-lying areas prone to inundation by overflowing drains. While most of them are portable ones and are in the process of being positioned in allocated locations, some of them have been installed permanently.

"We have come up with 12 permanent pumping stations for the first time by spending nearly Rs 2 crore," corporation's deputy executive engineer D.R. Tripathy said today.

The permanent pumping stations have been built at Kamalakanta Vidhyapith (Jobra), Shyamsundar Math (Khannagar), Andarpur, Tingharia, Matrubhavan, Bisnabara, Rajabagicha police colony, Sishu Bhawan, Satichaura Idgah, Shivaji Nagar, Chahata and Deer Park. "Besides, we have removed silt load from almost all the surface water channels," Tripathy said.

The annual silt removal operation is taken up to prevent waterlogging and inundation of homes by overflowing drains following heavy rain.

For removal of silt from main storm water channels and branch storm water channels as well as their renovation, the civic body had earmarked Rs 3 crore in its 2015-16 budget, which is Rs 1 crore more than the previous year's allocation.

The exercise covers the entire drainage system in the city constituting of two main storm water channels stretching up to 25km, a network of 30km of branch drains and 85km of tertiary drains with surface water channels measuring up to over 600km.