PWD gets 70 waterlogging complaints in 10 hours
The Hindu
Vehicular movement affected in various parts of the city
The Public Works Department (PWD), which has jurisdiction over the entire network of arterial road stretches in Delhi, received around seven waterlogging complaints every hour following the sudden downpour on Tuesday. According to a PWD official, the department’s control room received 70 calls about waterlogging during a ten-hour period starting around 9 a.m. “There was some duplication in the complaints but, broadly, most of them pertained to around half a dozen locations and alleged waterlogging within an hour after the shower. The first call was logged around 8.50 a.m.,” the PWD official said.
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