A torrential downpour on Thursday turned a section of the newly minted Dwarka Expressway into a cautionary tale. Near Sector 104, service roads were submerged under several inches of rainwater, casting a harsh spotlight on the expressway’s incomplete drainage blueprint.
Gurugram Floods Leave Dwarka Expressway Clogged
According to The Times of India, the stretch that flooded lies along the city portion of the expressway, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year. Billed as a game-changing corridor poised to decongest the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, it promised faster commutes between west and south Delhi and Gurugram. But as the rain poured, its condition could not withstand the heavy downpour.
According to officials from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which oversees maintenance, the problem lies outside their purview. According to them, rainwater from nearby colonies routinely drains onto the service roads. And to handle the overflow, they have to deploy an 82HP dewatering pump to handle the situation.
The NHAI says it has repeatedly raised the drainage issue with the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) since May last year. In turn, GMDA insists that HSVP (Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran) is still constructing the main drainage spine in sectors 81 through 111 and hasn’t yet handed over the network. Meanwhile, GMDA’s own drainage work in sectors 68–75 and 112–115, essential for diverting surface runoff away from the expressway, is crawling forward with an extended deadline of August 2026.
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Children Swimming In Street Water Amidst Floods; Check Out The Viral Video
If you are living in Gurgaon, consider yourself unlucky as fate brought you here as a punishment for previously committed sins. You have to bear high living cost for worst infrastructure.
Visuals of Sector 10A after today’s rain@GabbbarSingh waht is your take on this? pic.twitter.com/DfQWu1a00C— ankur upadhyay (@ankurupadhyay04) July 31, 2025
Gurgaon’s latest monsoon meltdown has sparked both outrage and disbelief because of a viral video that shows children swimming in a flooded street in Sector 10A. After heavy rainfall battered the city this week, several areas witnessed severe waterlogging and traffic snarls, but it was this clip, featuring kids floating in murky water using a plastic road divider as a makeshift float, that captured public attention.
The road, completely submerged with stranded vehicles lining the sides, became an impromptu swimming ground. “If you are living in Gurgaon, consider yourself unlucky as fate brought you here as a punishment for previously committed sins. You have to bear high living cost for worst infrastructure,” the X user who shared the video wrote, summing up the public sentiment with biting sarcasm.
The footage may seem amusing at first glance, but it lays bare a much grimmer truth: Gurgaon’s infrastructure remains deeply inadequate for a city of its stature and cost of living. Sector 10A is no stranger to seasonal flooding, yet despite repeated incidents, drainage upgrades remain sluggish or nonexistent, as stated by The Times of India.
This year is no exception. Residents are still left to document their daily inconveniences online, where irony, frustration, and despair blend into one soggy narrative. In a city that sells luxury apartments and IT parks as signs of progress, children wading through sewage-laced streets offer a jarring counterpoint.
Cover Image Courtesy: vipinsinghal21/X
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