Surender Sharma checks out how sloppy civic work for the Games has found a new ally, rain, to make citizens' lives miserable. Learn this map by heart. It might save you a few stranded, agonising hours
Surender Sharma checks out how sloppy civic work for the Games has found a new ally, rain, to make citizens' lives miserable. Learn this map by heart. It might save you a few stranded, agonising hours
Jam-packed: Serpentine queues of vehicles at ITO greeted motorists on
Wednesday following rains in the city. PIC/Imtiyaz Khan
Short-term measures taken
555 Number of portbale pumps installed
102 Number of total vulnerable points.MCD appoints beat officers to check regular water-logging.
1564 Total number of drains
1503 Number of drains cleaned
898 Number of those which have sludge
Worst waterlogged spots
Munirka, Minto Bridge, Tilak Bridge, Mukherjee Nagar, Naraina, Loni Road, Krishna Nagar, Chhatrasal Stadium, Bhogal, Karawal Nagar, Pitampura, Patel Nagar, Azadpur, Outer Ring Road, Patparganj, NH 24
Ab bus: A bus wading through a waterlogged road near Inderlok in
north Delhi while another (right) encounters water near airport on
Wednesday pics/Rajeev Tyagi
Quote-unquote
It seems de-silting work has not been done properly. I have got complaints from over 70 councillors about it. This year we are taking some short term measures but for the next year I have asked them to give me feedback about problems in their areas.u00a0u00a0
- Jagdish Mamgain, Chairman Works Committee MCD
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We outsourced de-silting work this year which could have been avoided in the wake of the Commonwealth Games. To save the money and utilise our own manpower we, apparently after 10 years, did de-silting by ourselves. But it seems the workers did a shoddy work.
-u00a0A top works department official
No relief: The Dhaula Kuan grade separator may have provided smooth
flow to the traffic at the busy intersection but a downpour on Wednesday
negated it all.u00a0 PIC/Imtiyaz Khan
TAILSPIN
Heavy rains and stormy weather on Wednesday led to flight delays and diversions at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA). Two flights had to be diverted to nearby airports due to strong tailwinds at the airport. Many evening flights also got delayed by one to three hours due to severe traffic congestion. The heavy rains and strong winds at 4.30 pm coincided with the peak hour traffic for domestic flights at the airport, leading to delays.
The IGI airport witnessed a dense cloud over the runways in the evening and IGI Met Department issued warnings about heavy rains.
Torrential rains reduced the visibility to around 1,500 metres at the airport, an airport weather official said.
Airline officials said all evening flights were affected due to the jams. With the critical Dhaula Kuan area choked, passengers and crew members reached the airport much after the scheduled departure of flights. ''Though we delayed most flights for as long as possible, some passengers came to the airport so late that they had to be accommodated on other flights or put up in nearby hotels," said an airline official.
21.2 mm Rain received by Delhi on Wednesday
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