Heavy rains lashed parts of Delhi-NCR for the second consecutive day on Friday, causing waterlogging, traffic jams, rain-related accidents, casualties, and injuries that prompted the government to take measures to tackle the situation.
Sharing information about the incident, Deputy Commissioner of Police, North East Joy Tirkey, said, "Two children died after drowning in a deep ditch that was filled with rainwater in the New Usmanpur area today. The incident took place around 5:00 pm in the New Usmanpur area."
Atishi said that a combined Emergency Control Room of all water-related departments like Delhi Jal Board, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Irrigation and Flood Control Department will be formed, which will monitor waterlogging 24 hours a day and take action.
The meeting will be held at the Delhi Secretariat. All Ministers of the Delhi government and all the officers of the concerned departments are expected to attend the meeting.
The meeting was conducted to review the situation arising in the city due to waterlogging, overflow of unsilted drains and the backflow of the clogged sewer lines in the wake of the pre-monsoons in the city.
After heavy rain lashed the national capital creating traffic snarls and roadblocks, a few labourers are feared trapped after an under-construction wall collapsed in the Vasant Vihar area.
After the rain lashed during the early morning hours on Friday brought the national capital to a standstill, Delhi Government has called an emergency meeting at 2 pm at Delhi Secretariat following heavy rainfall and waterlogging.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu visited Safdarjung and AIIMS hospitals in the national capital and met with those who were injured after a portion of the roof collapsed at the Terminal-1 of New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Friday.