NEW DELHI: Heavy rain lashed Delhi-NCR on Monday, leaving a number of elements of the area waterlogged, visitors crawling on key roads and flight operations disrupted, because the climate workplace issued alerts for the nationwide Capital.In Gurgaon, authorities issued a work-from-home advisory for August 25 following heavy rainfall and issues over waterlogging and visitors congestion.The District Catastrophe Administration Authority, Gurgaon, in an advisory dated August 24, mentioned there have been possibilities of waterlogging and visitors congestion within the district following heavy rainfall.It suggested all company places of work and authorities and personal colleges/establishments within the district to information their workers/workers to do business from home on August 25.The advisory mentioned the transfer was geared toward avoiding visitors congestion and permitting civic businesses to hold out highway and drain restore works easily.It additionally requested officers to make sure crucial motion and publicity of the advisory.
Gurgaon flooded after heavy rain
Gurgaon was inundated after round an hour of heavy rainfall on Monday, with waterlogging reported in a number of elements of town and visitors motion slowing on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway and key roads.The district administration mentioned Gurgaon obtained 70mm of rainfall by 1:30pm, information company PTI reported.Narsinghpur, Hero Honda Chowk, Rajiv Chowk, IFFCO Chowk, Railway Highway, Sector 5, Outdated Delhi Highway, Mehrauli Highway and Basai Highway had been among the many affected areas.Naharpur underpass was additionally waterlogged.Automobiles had been caught in water round Rajiv Chowk, whereas college buses and ambulances had been caught in waterlogging on Sohna Highway.Waterlogging in outdated Gurgaon, together with Sadar Bazar, Gurdwara Highway and Outdated Delhi Highway, led to visitors jams until afternoon.A senior visitors police officer mentioned vehicular motion was choked close to the Sirhaul border, Rajiv Chowk, Narsinghpur and another places.Site visitors police personnel had been deployed to handle the state of affairs, PTI reported.A big part of the expressway close to Cyber Hub, reverse Gateway Tower Metro station, was submerged.Sheetla Mata Highway, which has emerged as one in every of Gurgaon’s flood-prone places this monsoon, was among the many worst affected.The most recent WFH advisory comes in opposition to the backdrop of repeated rain-related visitors disruptions in Gurgaon this month.Heavy rainfall had flooded a number of stretches, submerged underpasses and prompted authorities to ask places of work to permit workers to do business from home.
Delhi sees waterlogging, visitors snarls
In Delhi, waist-deep water, bumper-to-bumper visitors and disrupted motion marked Monday’s downpour.A number of key stretches, together with elements of Lutyens’ Delhi, Mathura Highway, Connaught Place, Bhairon Marg, ITO and the Zakhira underpass, had been waterlogged, PTI reported.Movies confirmed college students wading by way of waist-deep water in Sangam Vihar, whereas residents in Sadar Bazar had been compelled to navigate flooded streets.Roads within the Kamla Nagar market space had been additionally submerged.In response to knowledge obtainable until 1.15pm, Janakpuri recorded 67mm of rain, adopted by Chhatarpur at 57mm, Pitampura at 35mm and Safdarjung at 29mm.Commuters reported heavy visitors close to Sarai Kale Khan, Mathura Highway and the Dwarka Expressway.Water accumulation was additionally reported round Bishambar Das Marg, Parliament Road, Bhairon Marg, ITO, Mathura Highway, Connaught Place, New Ashok Nagar Metro Station, Burari, CR Park, Alaknanda, Sangam Vihar and Bhalswa.Between 8.30am and 11.30am, Chhatarpur recorded the best rainfall in Delhi at 28mm, adopted by Lodi Highway at 24.6mm and Pitampura at 18.5mm, in line with the IMD.The Ridge recorded 5mm, Mayur Vihar 1.5mm, Safdarjung 1mm and Ayanagar 0.1mm in the course of the interval.
15 Delhi-bound flights diverted
The rain additionally disrupted flight operations, with 15 Delhi-bound flights diverted, together with two worldwide flights. Eleven flights had been diverted to Jaipur.Air India suggested passengers travelling to and from Delhi to examine their flight standing earlier than heading to the airport, whereas IndiGo additionally issued a journey advisory, saying dangerous climate had affected flight schedules.
Orange alert for Delhi
Giving the climate forecast, IMD scientist Akhil Srivastava mentioned,” ‘Orange’ alert for mild to reasonable rain to remoted heavy rainfall exercise has been issued for Delhi as we speak. Heavy to very heavy rain alert has been issued in Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh within the subsequent 24 hours, in view of a low-pressure formation in Gangetic West Bengal and Jharkhand.”The climate workplace additionally warned of thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds. Alerts had been issued for heavy to reasonable rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and winds of as much as 40kmph.In response to the IMD’s broader forecast, rain and thunderstorm exercise is predicted to proceed throughout a number of elements of the nation on August 25, with intense rainfall probably in some areas.
Civic groups deployed in Gurgaon
Municipal Company officers remained lively on the bottom in the course of the rainfall.Municipal commissioner Pradeep Dahiya and extra municipal commissioner Yash Jaluka inspected waterlogging-prone areas together with officers from the Gurgaon Metropolitan Improvement Authority, Nationwide Highways Authority of India and Municipal Company.Dahiya directed officers to maintain pumping preparations lively in waterlogged areas and guarantee groups attain websites instantly after receiving stories of waterlogging and drain the gathered water.The August 25 WFH advisory is meant to cut back the variety of automobiles on already congested roads whereas civic businesses undertake restore and drainage work following Monday’s rain.(With company inputs)
