Delhi-NCR rains: IMD issues yellow alert as heavy rainfall continues; check routes to avoid Photo: File (Image for illustration)
Today, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a ‘yellow’ discover for Delhi-NCR and cautioned of extreme rains in quite a few areas of the world. The monsoon has prompted chaos round Gurugram as the nonstop rain has flooded roads and overflowed drains, inflicting extreme waterlogging and halting visitors for hours.
Waterlogging has been recorded at Himgiri Chowk, shut to sector-10A, Aggarwal Dharamshala Chowk, Sheetla Mata Mandir Road, Kanhai Chowk, Subash Chowk, Khandsa, and Rajiv Chowk, in accordance to info launched on Sunday by the Gurugram Traffic Police. Waterlogging has additionally been attributable to the in a single day rain throughout the Gurugram-Delhi Expressway.
The district authorities studies that Gurugram bought 71 mm of rain between Saturday night time and Sunday morning. The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has suspended public utilization of all of the underground and subways for walkers and non-motorized transportation (NMT) until the rain stops.
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The Narsingpur Gurugram deputy commissioner (DC), Nishant Kumar Yadav, instructed Hindustan Times that they’re making an attempt to do away with standing water utilizing pumps from each location and have shut the underground walkways and subways for the safety of commuters after a number of two-wheeler and cycle riders had been struggling to recognise potholes and slipped into the filthy water on Golf Course Extension Road, Sector 69 Sector 5, Basai Road and Narsingpur Gurugram.
As opposed to these dwelling in Delhi and Noida, Gurugram residents have probably the most extreme waterlogging and related issues. According to the director of the Regional Meteorological Centre in Delhi, heavy rains can happen over the subsequent two days in Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. For Chandigarh, Haryana, and Punjab, IMD launched an “orange” alert.
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