Gurugram: Locals bear brunt of MCG’s apathy
The Millennium City turned into a swimming pool as heavy rains lashed Gurugram on Wednesday. The water entered houses as well. The water entered basements and ground floors of houses in areas such as Sushant Lok, Palam Vihar, DLF Phase 3, Sector 5, Sector 6, Sector 10A, Sector 15 and Heera Nagar. The water also flooded the parked and moving cars, leading to outrage among residents, who called out the poor civic management of city, highlighting the taxes they paid and contribution to state exchequer.
The local RWAs claimed that it was all due to negligence and indifference to basic acts such as pre-monsoon cleaning that city faced this crises every year.
“The drains of a majority of residential areas have not been cleaned since 2023. The contractors don’t work and are still paid, and the residents face the crises. Every year, over huge amount of money is spent to save the city from waterlogging, but we fail. Imagine living in a house worth crores and people are moving around with buckets, throwing water out from your swanky basements and drawing rooms,” said Praveen Yadav of United Gurugram RWAs.
The residents took to social media, seeking answers from the local authorities.
The MCG employees were seen running from one spot to another, carrying pumps to drain the water.
“In many areas, it’s the encroachments of drains that leads to flooding. However, there are complaints of non-cleaning of drains. These will be investigated and we will penalise all responsible contractors and officials,” said MCG Commissioner Pradeep Dahiya.
Narsinghpur emerges as silver lining
While chaos reigned the entire city of Gurugram, the Narsinghpur area emerged as a silver lining. The notorious zone that usually gets flooded following slight rain and takes days to drain did not witness much waterlogging, and the water got drained within few hours. Industrialists of the region hailed the local authorities who worked got a temporary drain constructed before the rains.
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