Heavy rains lash national capital; IMD issues yellow alert

New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): Heavy rainfall lashed parts of the national capital, following which a ‘yellow’ warning was issued by the weather office on Monday.

Visuals from the Udyog Bhawan area show commuters making their way through rainwater-filled streets clad in raincoats and clinching umbrellas.

Incessant rainfall has been causing massive waterlogging and traffic jams in several areas of the city, disrupting the normal lives of the residents.

People were spotted navigating through waterlogged streets as the rain continued to lash the city.

Earlier, a seven-year-old boy drowned in a waterlogged park in the New Delhi Rohini area, officials said.

The incident took place on Saturday evening in the park when he drowned in a pond formed due to rainwater in Sector-20 in Rohini, Delhi Police said.

Heavy rainfall also lashed Gurugram, causing massive water logging and traffic jams in several areas of the city on Sunday.

Key areas, including the Gurugram-Delhi Expressway and many other subways, were severely impacted.

The national capital also witnessed heavy downpours on Sunday. With a spell of incessant rainfall in the capital city of Delhi, several areas of the city faced waterlogged roads and streets.

Earlier in the day, Haryana Minister Aseem Goyal took stock of the situation after heavy rains lashed Ambala on Sunday.

Haryana Minister Aseem Goyal said, “In the last 24 hours it has rained more than 220 mm. Any city can withstand up to 50 mm of rainfall in 24 hours but the rainfall has been 5 times more. There is a trend of cloud bursting. Certainly, there has been waterlogging in many places due to heavy rains. Our departments are trying to handle the situation.”

He also said that tenders would be opened for some projects that have been cleared and this would provide relief.

According to IMD, Haryana is expected to receive isolated heavy rainfall till August 14.

“Fairly widespread to widespread light-moderate rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall very likely over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, East Uttar Pradesh during 10th -16th; Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, West Uttar Pradesh on 10th, 11th and during 14th – 16th; Punjab on 10th and 11th; Haryana-Chandigarh during 10th, 11th and 14th August,” IMD said in a press release.