hyderabad the greater hyderabad municipal corporation ghmc has constituted 168 emergency monsoon teams to cater to lowlying areas across the city these teams have been divided into static labour teams minimobile teams and emergency mobile teams the static labour teams equipped with desilting equipment and tree cutters are deployed at identified waterlogging points in different parts of the city to unclog drains and clear uprooted trees the minimobile teams and emergency mobile teams will be sent to areas to attend to complaints ghmc officials said they had already identified 89 waterlogging points across the six zones most of them are in lb nagar khairatabad and secunderabad zones where even 5 cm to 6 cm of rain is enough to inundate the region officials also have 12 boats on standby two each across six zones at community halls in lowlying areas such as falaknumas alzubair colony tolichowkis nadeem colony and chandrayangutta areas apart from them the disaster management wing of ghmc also has eight boats for monsoon emergencieswe have reviewed the issues that ghmc and other departments faced during the 2020 flood to ensure that we are capable of handling things better in a timely fashion in that sense we have set up the monsoon emergency teams and deployed them across the zones a senior engineer in ghmc told toiapart from the 168 emergency monsoon teams the disaster management wing also has 16 disaster relief force drf teams comprising 360 professionals the hyderabad metropolitan water supply and sewerage board hmwssb has also formed 16 emergency response teams ert which are deployed across 16 divisions to tackle emergency in lowlying areas officials said that the phase one of strategic nala development programme sndp has been hit due to the delayed tender process and feasibility issues engineerinchief ziauddin mohammed also issued memos to 12 engineers across various circles for delays and failing to abide by safety norms while constructing the new nala network earlier this month