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By Express News ServiceKOCHI: ‘Operation Breakthrough’, launched to find a permanent solution for Kochi’s long waterlogging issue, will be completed in 90 days. “Operation Breakthrough will be based on Operation Anantha which helped solve waterlogging issues in Thiruvananthapuram city. A special cell, comprising officials from the district disaster management wing, corporation, revenue, survey and police departments, will evaluate the operation’s progress daily, it was decided. Since the project is being carried out under the Disaster Management Act, no agencies or department can object to and stall its progress. Op Anantha’s success a driving factorLaunched in 2015, Operation Anantha marked the first-ever use of Section 25 of the Disaster management Act to clean up encroachments..