monsoon

With a 1976 drainage master plan and multiple agencies managing them at loggerheads, Delhi shows how not to manage the yearly monsoon mayhem.

After last years floods, a high level committee ordered construction of 17 new sump houses, but this has remained on paper. Work to make existing sump houses functional has also not taken off.

Cities in India dread what the monsoon rains do to their roads. But why are our roads of such pathetic quality? And is there anything we can do to change the status quo?