With the city recording more than 64.2 mm of rainfall on Wednesday multiple stretches across Gurugram were flooded. However, officials claimed that efforts were on to clear waterlogging.
After a few hours of rain on the second consecutive day caused heavy waterlogging both vehicular traffic and pedestrian movement was disrupted on several roads.
Morning rush hour traffic was affected and the police struggled to keep the vehicles moving. The policemen were seen standing in knee-deep water while struggling to keep traffic going.
Nearly 3-4 feet of water was accumulated at several city roads while the rainwater flooded the city’s industrial area in Sector-37, Sector-34, Khandsa and Manesar.
Traffic movement on the Delhi-Jaipur-Mumbai highway was severely hit due to waterlogging.
Nearly 70 per cent of the city was submerged in an average of 3 feet of water with the worst-hit areas being Signature Tower Chowk, Ram Chok (Udyog Vihar), Narsinghpur (NH-48), Haldiram towards Manesar, Basai Road, Nathupur, Z Chowk near Huda City Centre Metro Station, Bilaspur Chowk, Dronacharya Metro Station, Iffck Metro Station, Galleria Market Road, Good Earth Mall, Mayfield Garden Chowk, Sector-12 Chowk, Mini Secretariat, Sector-21/22 T-point, Medicity T-point and Sheetla Mata Road.
The water also entered several houses in Sector 7, Sector 9, Sector 10, Malibu Town, Anjna colony, Saraswati Enclave, Sheetla Colony, Rajiv Colony, Ashok Vihar, Palam Vihar and Sushant Lok.
Apart from the city roads, multiple underpasses, including Rajiv Chowk, Hero Hoda Chowk, Signature Tower, Medanta Underpass and Signature Tower Underpass were also submerged. The local authorities had to installed machines to flush out rainwater. The residents of Gurugram took to social media to vent their woes and slam the local authorities for the huge mess.
“Traffic Alert: Water logging has been reported at Basai Road. Our traffic officials are on the spot to facilitate traffic flow. Commuters are requested to plan their travel accordingly,” tweeted by the traffic police.
Several residents took to Twitter to share their experiences and posted photos of waterlogging and traffic jams.
Office-goers in the city, too, faced a lot of inconvenience due to traffic disruptions.
“We have already deployed traffic personnel at the major junctions of the city to ensure smooth traffic movement,” Subhash Boken, said.
