Gurugram: Roads cave in at IFFCO Chowk and 7 other places

GURUGRAM: A sizeable chunk of a road at IFFCO Chowk gave way on Saturday morning, following two days of incessant showers. This is the third time in recent years that the busy intersection on the Delhi-Gurugram expressway witnessed a cave-in.
The dangerous 4-5ft crater at IFFCO Chowk was not the only such incident in the city - roads on MG Road, sectors 4 and 7, Palam Vihar, Basai Chowk, Laxmi Garden and Khandsa Road also caved in during the day. Officials said the roads primarily caved in due to resettlement of soil after the showers.
Nirman Jambulkar, project director of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), said the damaged portion of the road has been cordoned off.
"The road gave way due to a leakage in the sewer line below the road. We have asked the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) to fix the sewer line."
In Sector 4, two cars got stuck due to a road cave-in in the wake of the ongoing underground pipeline laying work, according to officials.
Apart from the cave-in, several areas witnessed waterlogging - Basai Chowk, sectors 4, 9, 9A, 10, 10A, Surya Vihar, Sheetla Mata Road, Palam Vihar, Khandsa Road, Rajjiv Nagar and Old Delhi Road to name a few. The rainfall also brought in its wake reports of trees getting uprooted in areas like Palam Vihar, Sector 21, Udyog Vihar, Sector 4 and Laxmi Vihar, disrupting traffic movement.
MCG and the GMDA installed dozens of pumps in Sector 10A, bus stand area, Khandsa, Sheetla Mata Road, Rajiv Nagar, sectors 4, 38, 44, 46, Genpact Chowk, Vatika Chowk and Narshingpur Chowk. Waterlogging at IMT Manesar Chowk led to a 2km-long traffic jam. Congestion was reported from Rajiv Chowk, Subhash Chowk, Vatika Chowk, Gawal Pahari and Sikanderpur metro station area due to waterlogging.
Chief engineer of GMDA, Rajesh Bansal said, "We have received complaints of waterlogging from several areas. Narshingpur on NH-48 has major waterlogging. Additional pumps have been installed at Narsinghpur and our teams are on the ground."
Radheshyan Sharma, executive engineer of MCG, said that division-wise officials have been assigned duties to deal with waterlogging. "Additional water pumps have been installed to drain out the water," he said.
DCP (traffic) Virender Singh Sangwan said that additional forces have been deployed at waterlogging points.