Heavy rain hit Gurugram on Monday, leading to widespread waterlogging and site visitors snarls throughout town. The India Meteorological Division (IMD) had issued a purple alert for heavy rainfall, prompting faculties to drop college students early as a precautionary measure.
Nonetheless, extreme waterlogging within the metropolis’s Subhash Chowk space left a number of college buses carrying kids stranded on waterlogged streets for hours.
Visuals that went viral on social media present a line of yellow college buses stranded on a submerged street. The water was deep sufficient to nearly utterly cowl the bus tyres, leaving the youngsters trapped inside.
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Residents Battle
Visuals on social media confirmed residents struggling on waterlogged roads at a number of key places in Gurugram. Two college students have been seen carrying schoolbags above their heads, strolling slowly as they felt the bottom’s stability earlier than taking every step, with no approach to inform if the street had any giant potholes or open manholes.
Different movies confirmed gig staff and motorists dragging their automobiles by way of waist-deep waters.
Key Areas Blocked
The waterlogging was not restricted to Subhash Chowk. Key areas corresponding to Rajiv Chowk, IFFCO Chowk, Railway Highway, Sector 5, Outdated Delhi Highway, Mehrauli Highway and Basai Highway have been a few of the most affected.
Visitors on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway was slowed, whereas the stretch from Signature Tower to Hero Honda Chowk, which often takes round quarter-hour to cowl, took not less than 50 minutes.
WFH Advisory For Places of work, On-line Courses For Faculties
Gurugram’s administration asked offices to allow work-from-home (WFH) and faculties to show on-line mode after heavy rain immediately.
“In view of the heavy rainfall within the district Gurugram on 24.08.2026, there are possibilities of waterlogging and site visitors congestion. Subsequently, all company workplaces and authorities and personal faculties/establishments within the district are suggested to information their workers to make money working from home from 25.08.2026, in order that site visitors congestion might be averted and restore works of roads and drains might be carried out easily by civic companies,” the advisory issued by District Justice of the Peace-cum-Chairperson of the District Catastrophe Administration Authority (DDMA), Uttam Singh, learn.
Why Gurugram Faces Extreme Waterlogging Each Monsoon
Simply an hour of rain introduced the whole metropolis to a standstill on Monday, an annual incidence for residents of India’s “Millennium Metropolis.” Regardless of housing high-profile company workplaces and luxurious residences, town’s civic infrastructure continues to break down throughout extended downpours.
From its pure topography to drainage failures, several factors contribute to the city submerging every monsoon.
Gurugram is positioned in a pure basin. When heavy rainfall hits, stormwater rushes quickly down from the encompassing Aravalli hills and converges on the city plains.
Town’s poor drainage can be a key purpose behind the waterlogging. Throughout heavy rain, stormwater simply breaches the Badshahpur drain’s most carrying capability, inflicting poisonous overflows onto predominant roads and into residential sectors.
