Delhi Water M🔴inister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Thursday said that five gates at the ITO barrage are disrupting the flow of the Yam🌺una water.
During an inspection of the barrage near the Delhi Se♛cretariat, Bharadwaj said five of the 32 gates are jammed due to silt accumulation, hindering the quick drai꧟nage of river water.
"We are actively working to ꦍopen these gates. A compressor has been brought from the Kondli plant to remove the silt surrounding the gates. If the gates fail to open, gas cutters will be used," he said.
Somnath Bharti, the Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman, meanwhile, shared a video on Twitter that purpo💮rts to show a dry canal and accused the BJP-led Haryana government of diverting flood water from the Hathnikund barrage to Delhi while oth✨er channels remain dry.
"Someone residing near Hathnikund has shared this video, which clearly shows that one channel supposedly leading towards Uttar Pradesh is completely dry, while Hathnikund surplus water is being diverte🐻d towards Delhi. This raises an important question that demands an answer. Is the unprecedented flooding orchestrated by the BJP as a political vendetta against the people of Delhi for consistently electing the A♏am Aadmi Party since 2013?" he said in the tweet.
The ferocious Yamuna turned roads into rushing streams, parks into watery labyrinths, and homes and shelters into submerged realms, severely disrupting daily l𒆙ife in the national capital.
The water level, however, stabilised after reaching 20༒8.62 metres, smashing the all-time record set 45 years ago by a significant margin.
As water from the Yamuna inundated more areas of Delhi and rescue effor꧅ts intensified, the city stared at a drinking water shoﷺrtage.
The Delhi government said the inundation of a pump house at Wazirabad impeded operations at Wazirabad, Chandrawal and Okhla water🍃 treatment plants, leading to a 25 per cent drop in water supply.
Central Water Commission Director Sharad Chandra said the rate of water flow rate at the Hathnikund barꦑrage in Haryana dropped to 80,000 cusecs at 4.00 pm.
"The water level has stabilised ... It is ex🌠pected to drop to 208.45 metres by 3.00 am on Friday," he told PTI.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority on 🌜Thursday directed that non-essential government offices, schools and colleges be closed till Sunday.
The city government has banned the entry of heavy goods vehicles, barring those carrying essential🌌 items, into the city from the four borders, including Singhu.
With vehicular movement in the national capital, eꩲspecially east Delhi, severely impaired by the closure of roads due to the overflowing Yamuna, the city's traffic police issued♐ an advisory on the restrictions and regulation.
According to the advisory, traffic has been impaired on the Mahatma Gandhi Marg between the IP flyover and Chandg💯i Ram Akhara as well as between Kalighat Mandir and Delhi Secretariat, and on the Outer Ring Road between Wazirabad Bridge and Chandgi Ram Akhara.
The Del🅺hi Metro, the city's lifeline, was also hit as water fro🍎m the raging Yamuna spilled onto the roads.
-WIth PTI Input
