ITO flooded: Arvind Kejriwal will go to the spot at 11 am.
New Delhi:
Delhi’s ITO crossing space, the busiest visitors intersection within the nationwide capital, has been flooded after a drain regulator broke down amid rising water ranges within the Yamuna river. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a tweet earlier at present confirmed that the breach is the reason for the flooding within the space, and that he has directed officers to hunt the assistance of the Military and catastrophe reduction power to repair it urgently.
“This breach is inflicting flooding of ITO and environment. Engineers have been working complete nite (sic). I’ve directed the Chief Secretary to hunt assist of Military/NDRF however this shud be fastened urgently,” he tweeted, quoting his cupboard colleague Saurabh Bharadwaj’s earlier tweet informing that water from the Yamuna was coming into town by the breach regardless of groups working all-night to repair the injury.
This breach is inflicting flooding of ITO and environment. Engineers have been working complete nite. I’ve directed the Chief Secretary to hunt assist of Military/NDRF however this shud be fastened urgently https://t.co/O8R1lLAWXX
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) July 14, 2023
Mr Kejriwal will go to the spot, which connects key elements of Delhi, at 11 am.
The regulator of drain quantity 12 between the Indraprastha bus depot and the WHO constructing on Delhi’s Ring Street broke down round 7 pm yesterday. This resulted in back-flow within the drain that carried water from central Delhi to Yamuna. Mr Kejriwal has mentioned that is the explanation ITO and surrounding areas are flooded.
Delhi Well being Minister and Delhi Jal Board Chairman Saurabh Bharadwaj reportedly tried to get it fastened all night time with out success.
Unfastened electrical wires within the ITO space, which has been barricaded from either side to dam automobiles from coming into, is one other reason behind concern. Pedestrians have been getting electrical jolts from the steel fence on the divider of the highway, the place they’re pressured to stroll to keep away from the inundated pavement. Authorities have lower the ability provide to electrical poles for now.
The water degree of Yamuna river at Previous Railway Bridge (ORB) has crossed the hazard mark and is at 208.40 meters, recorded round 9 am. Launch of water from the Hathnikund barrage in Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana amid incessant rainfall all through the week has prompted the Yamuna river to spill over on to elements of Delhi, regardless of repeated assurances from the Delhi authorities that it was ready, and floods have been unlikely.
The Central Water Fee has predicted that the water ranges will fall at present and will attain 208.30 metres by 1 pm.
The Delhi authorities shut down faculties, faculties, crematoriums, and even water remedy vegetation as water from the overflowing Yamuna flooded a number of elements of the nationwide capital yesterday.
