Delhi: Steps afoot to fix Minto Bridge underpass flooding, PWD floats tender to hire consultant

After years of waterlogging at the Minto Bridge underpass during monsoon, the Public Works Department (PWD) has floated a tender to hire a consultancy firm to help develop an independent drainage system for the area.

This comes two months after a 56-year-old man drowned in the waterlogged underpass, following a spell of heavy rainfall in the city. Police had said Kundan Kumar’s van got stuck in the underpass and he couldn’t escape.

A PWD official said, “The existing drainage system — a deep barrel drain — was created during the British era.

Back then, both sewage water and rainwater would go into the same lines and then flow into the river.