Heavy rainfall paralyzes city - Schools shut...

Heavy rains caused significant waterlogging and building failures, which caused widespread disruption and raised serious safety concerns, throwing delhi into pandemonium. There was severe waterlogging in various areas of the city; pictures of flooded streets surfaced from outside the Civic Center, which is close to Ramlila Maidan. vehicles navigating the floods in the Chhatarpur region of South delhi turned the streets into rivers, with slippers floating on the water. Waterlogging caused chaos in the Pragati Maidan tunnel, and traffic bottlenecks affected important intersections like as ITO, Dhaula Kuan, and the highways that led to the airport.

Rainwater even made its way inside the press Club of India, where, according to a rumored photo circulated online, patrons were seated in knee-deep water. In addition, the wall of a private school in Daryaganj collapsed due to the intense downpour, causing damage to surrounding parked cars. Another occurrence involved the continual rain causing a house in the Sabzi Mandi region to collapse. "MCD requested that residents of these buildings either evacuate or have them fixed after sending notices. But nobody pays attention to them. These kinds of things happen here after a lot of rain," a Sabzi Mandi local remarked, lamenting the numerous warnings that were ignored.

In the Ghazipur region, a 22-year-old mother and her infant perished in a flooded drain. tanuja and her three-year-old son Priyansh were at a weekly market purchasing household supplies when they fell into a drain as a result of waterlogging and drowned, according to Ghazipur police. The roadside drain was still being built when the tragedy happened, not far from Khoda Colony. Due to the likelihood of ongoing, intense rain, delhi Minister Atishi declared on social media that all schools—public and private—will be closed on august 1. According to Atishi, the MCD and the delhi government were keeping a careful eye on things.

"Over the past two hours, delhi has experienced extremely severe rainfall. "To ensure that no untoward incident occurs, the delhi government and MCD are closely monitoring low-lying areas and susceptible waterlogging locations," the statement on 'X' said. After the intense rain, the Old Rajinder nagar area—which was still in shock from the recent tragedy in which three students perished in a flooded coaching center basement—saw flooding once more. Protesting in thigh-high water, locals and students sang slogans and denounced the management for not cleaning the drains.