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- Heavy morning rain put Gurugram under an orange alert on Saturday, submerging arterial roads and residential sectors with knee-deep to two-foot waterlogging and bringing peak-hour traffic to a crawl.
- The IMD recorded 51.5mm of rainfall in the city up to 8am, with Manesar receiving the highest 54mm, and forecast more heavy showers exceeding 15mm per hour with thunderstorms and gusty winds.
- The district administration advised residents to avoid non-essential travel, waterlogged roads, underpasses and low-lying areas, while MCG and GMDA deployed suction pumps at low-lying junctions.
- The downpour exposed the city's monsoon preparedness, coming after a 10 km traffic tailback on Friday and the death of a labourer on Thursday who came in contact with a broken high-tension powerline in Bajghera.
What to watch next
- Whether IMD's forecast of continued heavy rainfall and thunderstorms through the day materialises across Gurugram and other parts of Haryana
- Effectiveness of MCG and GMDA's pumping operations in clearing waterlogged low-lying junctions
- Follow-up on accountability for Gurugram's waterlogging, which local MP Rao Inderjit Singh has publicly pledged to fix
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Rao Inderjit Singh
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“Gurugram waterlogging can’t be fixed via piecemeal solutions”
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…of rainfall, 54mm, in the last 24 hours till 8am. Similarly, Wazirabad received 42mm, Gurugram 41mm, Kadipur and Harsaru 29mm, Sohna 26mm, Badshahpur 12mm, Farrukhnagar and Pataudi received 10mm of rainfall. Also Read: Gurugram waterlogging can’t be fixed via piecemeal solutions : Rao Inderjit Singh 10 km- long traffic tailback On Friday, Gurugram experienced a 10 km-long traffic tailback from Delhi due to one hour of continuous rain. On Thursday, a 32-year-old labourer died in Bajghera after…
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