Interlinked drains to multiple agencies: What’s behind Delhi’s perennial problem
- Heavy rains in Delhi resulted in Waterlogging, due to various administrative loopholes.
Highlights:
- The first monsoon shower may have brought major relief from the heatwave to Delhi, but three hours of heavy rainfall was all it took to throw the national capital into chaos.
- This, despite the PWD claiming to have completed 83% desilting work.
- According to senior PWD officials and experts, key reasons are multiplicity of departments, lack of coordination, poor infrastructure, faulty design, and increasing population.
- Another major reason is the long-pending ‘Drainage Master Plan’, which is yet to be implemented owing to several problems
- The city’s drainage system does not have the capacity. It is also very old and the population is constantly increasing.
- There is a need for an integrated master plan.
Prelims Takeaway
- Urban Flooding