Delhi is now in the grip of waterlogging as there is no letup in the rains

The monsoons have heaped miseries on Delhi as the city continued to reel under massive traffic jams due to waterlogging due to heavy rains that lashed the city for second consecutive day on Saturday. Many arterial roads are flooded and commuters were stranded for hours while.
The lack of preparedness of the civic bodies was evident since it has not yet been able to deal with the perennial problem. The civic authorities have got portable pumps installed in many localities to pump out the excess water.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 12 July 2015.

The MET department has issued a warning that the heavy downpour could continue till Tuesday.
The problem of waterlogging in metropolitan cities in India are not new. It happens every year in Mumbai and Kolkata and, people living there have got used to this situation. The blame is usually put on the tides – Mumbai blames it on the tides in the Arabian Sea and in Kolkata, it is the Ganges that is to blame.
Interestingly, one chief Minister of Maharashtra had visions of turning Mumbai into Shanghai while the present chief Minister of West Bengal wants to turn Kolkata into London.
Long live such visionaries. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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