News: Monday Downpour Floods Gurugram, Strands Buses, Ambulances-25-08-2026
Gurugram went under water once more on Monday as heavy rain flooded arterial roads and residential sectors, trapping commuters, school buses and ambulances and again exposing the city’s drainage failures. The administration advised corporate offices, private institutions, government offices and schools to work from home on August 25 until further notice.
The district administration said Gurugram tehsil received 75 mm of rain between 8am and 3pm. The India Meteorological Department’s North Cap University station recorded 38 mm from 8.30am to 5.30pm.
Traffic was hit hardest around Rajiv Chowk, Narsinghpur, IFFCO Chowk, Sirhaul border, NH-48, Sohna Road, Sheetla Mata Road and parts of Old Gurugram. Old Delhi Road, Railway Road, Basai Road and Mehrauli Road saw long snarls, and Golf Course Road was inundated, including outside The Magnolias and The Camellias. Malibu Town, Sector 49, MG Road and the bus depot were severely waterlogged, and the Dhankot Village road was barricaded. By evening a 4 km jam had formed on Sohna Road near Islampur Village.
At least 14 buses were stuck at Subash Chowk for over four hours, and staff carried children to the roadside. Taruna Bhatia of Sector 70 said her child had been stranded since 1pm. Reema Srivastava, whose class 4 child waited over three hours, said the city could not survive "even three hours of downpour". School vans also broke down on Sheetla Mata Road. An ambulance driver said a 7km stretch of Sohna Road took more than 90 minutes.
Traffic police spokesperson Vikas Verma said teams were deployed and drones used to monitor waterlogged roads.
The flooding came despite GMDA’s claims of strengthened drainage. Executive engineer Vikram Kalkal said the drains carried water as per design parameters but the volume was too much, and that water receded at Narsinghpur, Subash Chowk and Sheetla Mata Road in four to five hours.
Flooded residential areas included sectors 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 10A, 12, 14, 17A, 23, 29, 34, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 52, 65, 67 and 69, Mianwali Colony and Ashok Vihar Phase 3.
Sagar Bhola, president of the South City-1 RWA, told HT the MCG office premises in Sector 34 were so flooded after a meeting that residents left their vehicles and took autorickshaws home. Col Surender Yadav (Retired), president of the Uppal Southend RWA in Sector 49, alleged desilting had happened "only on paper" and said the RWA installed nine pumps itself.
MCG officials said commissioner Pradeep Dahiya inspected vulnerable areas, and that pumps and suction tankers were deployed.
In Sector 22, a wall GMDA built last week, after the earlier one fell on August 5, collapsed. A vendor cart fell into the cavity but nobody was hurt. Kalkal told HT the wall had not dried fully and would be rebuilt.
IMD has issued no warnings for the coming week. The city recorded a minimum of 27°C and a maximum of 32°C.
