The Gurugram district administration has issued an advisory for Tuesday, 25 August, urging places of work to earn a living from home (WFH) and colleges to show on-line. In line with the advisory, steady heavy rainfall is prone to trigger waterlogging on a number of main roads and at intersections throughout town, resulting in site visitors snarls throughout the day.
“In view of the heavy rainfall in Gurugram district on 24.08.2026, there are probabilities of waterlogging and site visitors congestion. Due to this fact, all company places of work and authorities and personal colleges/establishments within the district are suggested to information their workers to earn a living from home from 25.08.2026, in order that site visitors congestion might be prevented and restore works on roads and drains might be carried out easily by civic businesses,” an advisory from the District Catastrophe Administration Authority learn.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had issued an orange alert within the morning for the Millennium Metropolis and Faridabad for heavy rain, nevertheless it was later downgraded to a yellow alert for all the Delhi-NCR area.
Gurugram waterlogging
A number of areas of Gurugram witnessed extreme waterlogging following the rainfall, with water ranges rising from ankle- to knee-deep on a number of roads. Among the many affected places had been Sector 10 close to Euro Worldwide Faculty, South Metropolis-1, Tulip Chowk and the 60-metre street in Sector 69, Narsinghpur, sectors 9, 14 and 45, V Block in DLF Part 3, the Ardee Metropolis stretch in direction of Sector 52, Sector 52A, Sector 5 and the Airia Mall stretch on Sohna Street, Hindustan Occasions reported.
Main congestion was additionally reported round Rajiv Chowk, Sector 15 Half 2, Important Gujjar Street in Sector 67, Previous Railway Street, the Mini Secretariat space, NH-48, IFFCO Chowk, Sohna Street and varied stretches of Previous Gurugram.
The downpour additionally disrupted site visitors motion throughout Gurugram, with automobiles crawling via a number of stretches and site visitors jams extending as much as 4 kilometres in some areas.
Movies displaying motorists abandoning their automobiles after turning into stranded on waterlogged roads have surfaced extensively on social media. Schoolchildren returning house had been additionally seen speeding in direction of elevated spots, together with bus stops constructed on raised platforms, as they tried to remain secure from the flooding and keep away from open manholes hid beneath the muddy water.
The heavy rainfall additionally affected site visitors circulation on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway, the place hundreds of automobiles had been pressured to maneuver at a crawl. The congestion occurred regardless of the expressway having ample street width to accommodate a big quantity of site visitors travelling at or close to the velocity restrict.
