India, June 9 -- The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) will conduct a robotic inspection of surface drains along master roads after June 15 to assess desilting work and identify bottlenecks that could cause waterlogging during the monsoon, officials said on Monday.

The decision was taken during a monsoon preparedness review meeting chaired by additional CEO GMDA Vishwajeet Choudhary on Monday. Around 70% of the city's 120km surface drain network has already been cleaned and desilted, officials said.

"The robotic survey will let us know the actual ground position and if any bottleneck is found in these drains it would also be removed. It has also been decided to deploy around 40 pumps of different capacities across the c...