Why Indian cities flood within hours of rain

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:47:21 +0000

Hello,Residents of Indian cities now more or less expect that they will flood within hours of monsoon rains every year. Many believe that the cities are simply not designed to handle the level of rain they receive.But in fact, some are equipped with fairly robust stormwater drain systems, as Vaishnavi Rathore found, looking at the example of Delhi. It was, primarily, poor management of this system and unregulated construction over it that left the drains clogged and useless in many parts of the city. In Delhi, the failure to resolve this problem was particularly stark given that some years ago, the government commissioned a study on it by IIT Delhi, only to shelve its analysis and recommendations.