The overnight rainfall in Delhi led to waterlogging areas across the National Capital on Sunday morning. The traffic movement was also affected, prompting the Delhi Traffic Police alerting commuters about traffic snarls due to waterlogging at specific areas across the city through Twitter.
Following the waterlogging across the city, the blame game started with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and Congress blaming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ruled Delhi Government.
Meanwhile, the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that he was personally monitoring the work to clear water logging from city roads. Kejriwal said that the civic agencies were busy fighting COVID-19 this year and therefore it was not the time for blame game over the issue.
Taking it to Twitter the Delhi CM tweeted, “Road under the Minto Bridge has been cleared of water logging. I was in contact with agencies since morning and was monitoring the process of removing water. We are keeping an eye on more such places in Delhi. Wherever there is water logging, it is being pumped out immediately.
According to police, traffic is affected from Azadpur to Mukarba Chowk due to water logging near GTK Depot. Traffic snarls due to waterlogging has been reported at Minto Road, Mathura Road, Outer Ring Road, Mehrauli Badarpur Road and Ashram.
“Traffic snarls due to waterlogging were also on South Avenue road, Vinay Marg, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg under railway bridge, Dhuala kuan, New Delhi Railway Station, Guru Nanak Chowk, Moolchand underpass, Modi Mill, Pull Prahaladpur, Prembadi underpass,” said a senior police official.
“During the day, traffic on IP marg remained heavy. Traffic coming from Laxmi Nagar was diverted towards Rajaram Kohli marg or Akshardham side,” he said.
“PWD and SDMC engineers are trying to clear water with the help of pumps and machines. Till then traffic on Saleemgarh coming from ISBT has been diverted at Rajaram Kohli Marg towrds Pushta road and then to NH24. Traffic has been diverted at Rajghat towards Delhi Gate side, at gate no 23 towards Vikas Marg, at loop on IP flyover to avoid the stretch between IP flyover and Bhairon road,” said the senior police official.
“As soon as water is cleared on ring road IP marg, all diversions will be removed. Traffic has been opened in all the stretches but for ring road near IP flyover. Motorists are requested to check the traffic updates while planning their trip especially when it rains,” he added.
Meanwhile, Delhi Traffic Police also tweeted “Traffic is affected from Yashwant Place to Ashoka Road due to water logging.”
“Traffic is affected on Ringh Road under Dhaula Kuan Fylover, GGP PDR road (both carriageways) and near Mundka Metro station (both carriageways) due to water logging,” said Delhi Police in it's another tweet.
The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) also said that a bus and two autos were stuck at Minto Bridge underpass here due to heavy waterlogging.
“A call was received around 7.54 am following which a team from Delhi Fire Service reached the spot where a bus and two autos were trapped due to waterlogging. The conductor of the bus and the auto driver was safely rescued by our personnel, said Atul Garg, Director, Delhi Fire Service adding that the bus was not carrying any passenger.
