With a spell of heavy downpour on Saturday exposing her Government’s failure to deal with perennial problem of waterlogging in the city, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday urged residents to pray so that rains do not return.
“Pray to the God to stop the rain,” Dikshit said when asked about how she plans to deal with the problem of waterlogging in the city as people had to suffer on Saturday due to failure of the administration to improve the drainage system. Putting the blame on civic bodies for the flooding of arterial roads and various areas following a four-hour-long heavy shower on Saturday, Dikshit said the Municipal Corporations will have to find a solution to the problem. “I do not want to get into fixing anybody’s responsibilities. It is the responsibility of the civic bodies,” the Chief Minister said when referred to massive chaos on the city roads after the rain.