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Delhi teen swept away in overflowing drain after rain
A teenage boy was swept away into an overflowing drain in Delhi on Friday evening as he walked home from work. Torrential rain lashed the National Capital Region, causing severe waterlogging and…
The Story in Brief
A teenage boy was swept away into an overflowing drain in Delhi on Friday evening as he walked home from work. Torrential rain lashed the National Capital Region, causing severe waterlogging and traffic jams across the city. NDTV reports that the victim fell into an uncovered or overflowing drain and could not be saved. Rescue teams searched but he was carried away by the current. The incident is the latest in a series of drowning deaths in Delhi's open drains during monsoon rains, which expose the city's crumbling drainage infrastructure and the lack of safety covers.
The Indian Opinion
Every monsoon, the same horror story plays out in Delhi. The outrage is real, but so is the selective memory. The civic body is blamed, yet nobody asks why drains are built without grilles or why encroachments choke them. The real test is not how many tweets are posted, but how many drains are actually desilted before the next downpour. Will the Delhi government order a city-wide audit of all open storm drains? That number will settle whether this was an act of God or a failure of maintenance.
Source: ndtv.com
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