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After heavy rains in Delhi on Saturday and Sunday night, the entire city was waterlogged. Water remained filled at many places till morning. This caused trouble to the common people. After this, the Delhi government has started taking action against negligent employees and officials. The Delhi government immediately suspended the junior engineer in charge and the pump operator after waterlogging on Minto Bridge on Sunday.
According to government sources, the assistant engineer will be issued a show cause notice for “supervisory negligence” and the executive engineer has been directed to submit an explanation detailing the preventive measures to avoid such incidents in future. Apart from this, the Engineer-in-Chief has been directed to ensure that such incidents do not happen again in Delhi and necessary warnings are issued.
Minto Bridge was filled with water earlier too
Minto Bridge is a railway bridge built over Vivekananda Road in New Delhi. Waterlogging and traffic problems have occurred on this bridge earlier too. Earlier on Sunday, Aam Aadmi Party MLA and party’s Delhi state president Saurabh Bharadwaj criticised Delhi PWD Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh, saying he was “missing” despite waterlogging in several parts of the national capital. “Where has PWD Minister Parvesh Verma disappeared?” Bhardwaj said in a post on Exclusive. Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly and former chief minister Atishi also questioned whether minister Verma would be removed from his post, questioning why he was not monitoring the situation on the ground. “Will Parvesh Sahib Singh be removed from the post of PWD minister? Why is he not on the ground even after waterlogging? Why is he hiding?”
Waterlogging in many areas of Delhi
Waterlogging in Delhi after heavy rains accompanied by strong winds in the early hours of Sunday led to waterlogging and traffic jams in several areas. Images received from Delhi Cantt showed a bus and a vehicle submerged in water in a flooded underpass, indicating the severity of the rains. Heavy waterlogging was also witnessed in ITO, Dhaula Kuan, Subroto Park, Nanakpura underpass and Chanakyapuri areas, leading to traffic disruptions.
On Saturday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had issued a red alert for Delhi and adjoining areas, warning of heavy thunderstorms, rain and gusty winds in the next two to three hours. The alert is part of a series of warnings issued based on the current weather conditions. Meanwhile, the IMD has said that Delhi is likely to receive rain on Sunday as well, with the IMD predicting thunderstorms and gusty winds with a speed of 30 to 40 kmph.
