Urban Waterlogging

Report by the District Magistrate, Agra waterlogging and inadequate drainage systems along the 12 km stretch of road constructed by the National Highways Authority of …

Report by the District Magistrate, Agra in EA No. 34 of 2024 IN OA No. 338 of 2023 (Ravendra Singh Vs. NHAI & Ors.) dated January 21, 2025. The compliance report was in response to the NGT order of May 22, 2023 regarding the inaction of the authorities in cleaning …

Government to fix responsibility for water-logging

The Delhi Government has taken a very serious view on water-logging and will not tolerate any type of negligence in this regard, said Urban Development Minister Arvinder Singh at a meeting on Thursday to discuss water-logging issues faced by the city. He said that the Government will fix the responsibility …

Rs 100 crore released to clean up Jaipur

JAIPUR: The empowered committee constituted by the state government for immediate clearance of debris in public areas and draining of flood water in affected areas of the city has sanctioned Rs 52 crore to JDA and Rs 48 crore to JMC. The amount has been sanctioned for cleaning of drains, …

HC to govt: Set up expert panel

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the government to set up a committee of senior officials from various agencies to solve the problem of waterlogging, saying it expected results so that “people don’t rush to court every time there is waterlogging”. It also summoned the CEO of …

High Court pulls up civic bodies for failure to stop water-logging

On a day the Capital received the season’s heaviest rain and traffic was thrown out of gear due to water-logging, the Delhi High Court pulled up the three municipal bodies on Tuesday for not taking concrete steps to deal with the poor drainage system. A Division Bench of the Court …

HC seeks report on steps taken to prevent waterlogging

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday ordered the civic bodies — the trifurcated MCDs and the NDMC to file a detailed status report within a week on steps taken by them to prevent waterlogging in the Capital. A bench of justices SK Kaul and Vipin Sanghi while giving the direction …

Desilting of Mithi complete: MMRDA chief

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has claimed that it has completed the desilting of the Mithi river, removing 1.49 lakh cubic metres of silt from the river. MMRDA commissioner Rahul Asthana on Wednesday said they had cleaned a 6-km stretch of the river. “The rock blasting at Mahim …

MMRDA draws up anti-flooding plan

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has laid down a detailed programme to avoid water logging in the monsoon at sites which are under its jurisdiction. Speaking to reporters on Monday, MMRDA commissioner Rahul Asthana said they would put up barricades at construction project sites like the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro …

Mumbai railways wake up to waterlogging

As the monsoon nears, railway authorities have sought to assure Mumbaikars that this year, there will be no disruptions in suburban services, which usually witness substantial breakdowns every rainy season. The Western Railway (WR) has added Digital Axel Counters (DACs) on standby in case the track circuiting system fails, and …

GMC assurance on cleaning of city drains

GUWAHATI, Jan 17 – The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has assured people that the task of cleaning the drains of the lanes and by-lanes of the city would be completed well ahead of the monsoons season, to check the problem of waterlogging. Countering the allegations that it is due to …

400-crore BMC plan to tackle flooding zones

Mumbai: In a bid to tackle the growing sewage problems in the western suburbs, the BMC is all set to unveil its Rs-400 crore project proposal under the Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project Stage II for Zone 5 (Malad, Borivli, Dahisar). By preventing the overflow of sewage in low-lying areas, the …

City drains covered to build parks, road; experts say unhealthy

To provide better landscape and green areas in the city, a few of the major drains are being covered. The move will allow authorities to make walkways, parks and roads, even as environmentalists claim that covering of drains will lead to choking and other heath issues. According to Delhi Development …

Rapid urbanization and induced flood risk in Noida, India

The amount and intensity of runoff at catchment scale are largely determined by the presence of impervious land cover types, which are predominant in an urbanized area. This paper examines the impact of different methods for estimating impervious surface cover on the prediction of peak discharges as determined by a …

Panel for drainage revamp

The state government has set up an inter-departmental co-ordination committee to monitor the revamp of the city’s centuries-old drainage system before the next monsoon, irrigation minister Manas Bhuniya said on Tuesday. As a first step, a smaller panel comprising representatives of the irrigation department, CMC, CEIP and the CMDA has …

A monsoon warning

As I write this my city Delhi is drowning. It started raining early this morning and within a few hours the city has come to a standstill. The television is showing scenes of traffic snarled up for hours, roads waterlogged and people and vehicles sunk deep in water and muck.

A monsoon warning

The meteorological department records that some 60 mm of rain has fallen in just about 6 hours; 90 mm in 24 hours; and with this the city has made up for its deficit of rainfall this season. In other words, in just about 24 hours Delhi and its surrounding areas …

Cloudburst floods T3, affects flights

New Delhi: A cloudburst at Palam, with 117mm rain coming down in just over an hour on Thursday afternoon, saw the arrival section of the world-class terminal 3 of IGI Airport submerged in ankle deep water and massive traffic jams on the approach roads led to several passengers missing their …

CIDCO facillitates design of stormwater systems in Mumbai

The software helped CIDCO design and analyze stormwater infrastructure to protect Dronagiri archipelago during monsoon season.

Rs131crore spent on cleaning, but nullah water enters homes in Mumbai

The incessant rainfall is not only leading to waterlogged roads, but the water is also entering several housing societies, confining residents to their homes for the last several hours. Surindra Khubchandani, a Khar resident, said he has been complaining to the civic body since the last several years, but the …

PIL against raising of road levels

GUWAHATI, Aug 22 – The constant practice of raising the levels of the city roads has led to the sinking of the plinth levels of the houses located along these roads and water logging even is some newly built areas. Countless number of individual houses built with lifelong savings, have …

‘Don’t plug this hole’

It has been six years since the July 26 deluge, but the fear of flood during monsoons still lingers among Mumbaikars. Especially among the residents of Mumbai’s western suburbs who have been facing severe waterlogging for the past six years. The city municipal corporation claims to be well prepared this …

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