Delhi-NCR, which has been suffering due to the humid heat for the past several days, when the evening came on Wednesday, the sky was covered with clouds and the weather became pleasant due to heavy rain. Weather news reached people with this headline, but only 20 minutes had passed when time changed, circumstances changed and emotions changed. News of pleasant weather and rain turned into pictures and videos of waterlogging.
This is the condition of those areas of the capital Delhi, which are called posh. Karol Bagh has been in the news for the last four-five days. Here, three students died after water filled the basement of an IAS coaching centre. The coaching operators and the administration are still engaged in whitewashing by giving their own arguments. Students are protesting demanding justice for their comrades and look at the condition of Karol Bagh today, it rained for a short while and the entire area was flooded. There has been such water accumulation from metro to market area that Yamuna water would feel ashamed after seeing its water level.
Let us tell you the situation in front of the RAO’s coaching center where the accident took place. In a video, it is seen that many students are seen knee-deep in water. In this video made amidst the rain, a student is saying, ‘This is the same place where three students died and even after a week, see what is the condition here? The protesting students demanded that immediate action should be taken on such problems, but for the last one week the police has been busy only in removing the students from here. It is not happening that action should be taken on this. The student is saying that the water is rising so fast here that there will be a drowning situation here too. But the police is busy catching the students here and killing them. But the real motive of protest is that such an incident should not happen again, it is not being worked on. Therefore this protest is necessary. ‘Meanwhile, a voice is coming from behind saying, ‘Get out, get out, get away from here.’ During this time it is visible that the water on this road is just below the waist.
On one hand, where the roads were submerged, the next problem came out to be traffic jam. The video is of near Jhandewalan, where water is seen flowing on the road and there is a jam due to this flowing water. A long queue of vehicles has formed. There is noise of horns and competition to get ahead if there is even a little space. After this rain in the evening peak hour, the way for people to reach their homes is blocked. This video is enough to tell that the arrangements in your city are worthy of ‘praise’.
If you leave from Delhi and want to reach Gurugram, then it is difficult to reach here on time even on Wednesday. Seeing the two videos that have surfaced from here, you will not believe that this is a picture of the city which the global world knows as the Millennium City. Well, Gurugram has been infamous for its Mahajaam for many years, but the problem is that even after so many years the face of the place has not changed. In Gurugram’s Subhash Nagar, rain water is moving on the road as if it is a ‘beach’, while the road on Old Railway Road has also been submerged.
Input: Anand Kumar