{"id":480170,"date":"2023-07-09T12:09:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T06:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=480170"},"modified":"2023-07-09T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T06:39:35","slug":"arvind-kejriwal-cancels-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/breaking-newscast-delhi\/arvind-kejriwal-cancels-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal cancels Delhi officers Sunday off, asks everyone to tackle rain-related issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, ordered all government officials and ministers to be on the ground to assess problem areas after torrential rain pelted many sections of the capital, causing waterlogging and traffic bottlenecks. This resulted in the cancellation of their Sunday holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Delhi government&#8217;s mayor and ministers have received instructions to conduct inspections. The minister of Delhi&#8217;s Public Works Department (PWD) Atishi, would also go today to districts that are flooded. At noon, she will be in the neighbourhood village Tilak Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to Twitter, the CM wrote, Delhi had 126mm of rainfall yesterday. Within just 12 hours, 15% of the monsoon season&#8217;s total rainfall was recorded. Waterlogging caused a lot of problems for people. The mayor of Delhi and all the ministers will tour the trouble spots today. All departmental officials have been told to cancel their Sunday vacation and go to work instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0915\u0932 \u0926\u093f\u0932\u094d\u0932\u0940 \u092e\u0947\u0902 126mm \u092c\u093e\u0930\u093f\u0936 \u0939\u0941\u0908\u0964 \u092e\u0949\u0928\u0938\u0942\u0928 \u0938\u0940\u091c\u093c\u0928 \u0915\u0940 \u091f\u094b\u091f\u0932 \u092c\u093e\u0930\u093f\u0936 \u0915\u093e 15% \u092e\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0930 12 \u0918\u0923\u094d\u091f\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0930\u0938\u093e\u0964 \u0932\u094b\u0917 \u091c\u0932 \u092d\u0930\u093e\u0935 \u0938\u0947 \u0915\u093e\u092b\u093c\u0940 \u092a\u0930\u0947\u0936\u093e\u0928 \u0939\u0941\u090f\u0964 \u0906\u091c \u0926\u093f\u0932\u094d\u0932\u0940 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u092d\u0940 \u092e\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940 \u0914\u0930 \u092e\u0947\u092f\u0930 problem areas \u0915\u093e \u0907\u0902\u0938\u094d\u092a\u0947\u0915\u094d\u0936\u0928 \u0915\u0930\u0947\u0902\u0917\u0947\u0964 \u0938\u092d\u0940 \u0935\u093f\u092d\u093e\u0917\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0905\u092b\u093c\u0938\u0930\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0938\u0902\u0921\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u091b\u0941\u091f\u094d\u091f\u0940 \u0915\u0948\u0902\u0938\u093f\u0932 \u0915\u0930 \u0915\u0947, \u0917\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0909\u0902\u0921 \u092a\u0930 \u0909\u0924\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0947 \u0928\u093f\u0930\u094d\u0926\u0947\u0936 \u0926\u093f\u092f\u0947\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArvindKejriwal\/status\/1677909592402173952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Inundated roads and overflowing drains caused chaos in Delhi&#8217;s residential and commercial sectors on Sunday as heavy rain fell in numerous areas of the capital for a second day, causing traffic to be stopped for hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in other parts of the country also people are facing rain-related issues. As torrential rainstorms continue to batter the area, major waterlogging has caused commotion and disruption in the area around Gurugram&#8217;s Sadar Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rainfall in Himachal Pradesh is extremely heavy. In Baes, a section of National Highway 3 washed away. In seven Himachal Pradesh districts, the IMD has issued a red alert. A landslide-related death has been recorded in Kullu. Six persons were rescued in the lower Pandoh area by an SDRF squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kathua and Samba districts of Jammu &amp; Kashmir, along with lower catchment regions, have been placed on red alert due to the region&#8217;s continued rain for the third day in a row on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The warning was issued by the meteorological service in response to indications from several locations that the water level in rivers and streams had this morning crossed the danger threshold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi government&#8217;s mayor and ministers have received instructions to conduct inspections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":480172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[35,125714],"tags":[36,72535,253,37,3213,103864],"yst_prominent_words":[5999,7130,9472,30519,18248,4017,18494,9163,14628,33862,3688,6678,3904,28308,6157,5981,68981,9445],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/07\/09120634\/180200-uljcsynwkz-1663730517-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480170"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=480170"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=480170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->