IIT Madras asks Chennai people to provide details of flooded roads

Balaji Narasimhan, Civil Engineering department, IIT Madras, said the data provided by the people would help Chennai corporation improve the design of roads, stormwater drains and improve their maintenance.  

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has invited people of Chennai to provide details of flooded roads in their neighbourhood after the city was lashed by heavy rains. Residents have already started reporting incidents of waterlogging from various locations on a flood mapping platform, Urban Risk Map. The data from the app, which was originally developed by Urban Risk Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is being collated by Balaji Narasimhan from the Civil Engineering Department, IIT Madras. 

Narasimhan in a statement said the data provided by the people on flooding would help the Chennai corporation improve the design of roads and stormwater drains and their maintenance. He said once people logged in to the data, it would act as an archive and would be used for improving the systems. 

How Urban Risk Map works 

People of Chennai can follow the beow-mentioned steps to report flooding in their area.

• Visit https://in.riskmap.org. 
• Click on it to submit report. 
• Your Twitter account will be activated. 
• Report flooding and activate the map by clicking on ‘report’. 
• A toggle and a slider is also provided to explain the level of flooding. 
• Upload a photograph of the site along with a comment regarding the flooding.  

IIT Madras is trying to collect maximum data and will share details with the Chennai Corporation. The recommendations will also be provided to the state government. The Civil Engineering department is also working on a simpler version for people who do not have a Twitter account and will be available in a few days. 

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