Ghaziabad, May 13 -- Taking cue from last year's waterlogging during the monsoon months, the municipal corporation of Ghaziabad has started cleaning and desilting drains about a month earlier than usual this year, but a major project to prevent flooding in city's residential colonies has been put on hold due to prevalence of the model code of conduct (MCC), municipal officials said.

Officials said they already tendered out the works before the imposition of the model code and currently, the cleaning of 109 major drains, 335 medium and about 635 small drains is underway.

"These works, estimated to cost about Rs.3-4 crore, has already been tendered out. We have also bought a big poclain machine for cleaning of the Brij Vihar drain in tran...