Monsoon wading: Doing it the Delhi way

You are in the national capital. And who rescues you when you are in kneedeep trouble after a not-so-heavy spell of rain? At Pul Prahladpur underpass near Tughlaqabad metro station, it is this bullock cart owner. “Aiye aiye, 100 bike ke liye, sirf sawari 10,” he repeats as commuters try to get going on a wet Sunday.
Akash Singh and his wife Sonia are among them.They have come from Ali village near Badarpur for their three-yearold daughter’s treatment at Tughlaqabad. But their auto can’t cross the underpass. Thanks to the cart owner, the couple make it. Ankit Saini, another commuter, has to pay Rs 500 to a local crane service to pull out his car from a drain.
“We are helpless. Every year we see this waterlogging, sewage water from Mehrauli also gets mixed with rainwater,” says a traffic policeman.
While Delhi saw ‘moderate’ rain on Sunday, the Met department forecast the monsoon showers to continue this week, with ‘moderate’ to ‘heavy’ rain on Wednesday.