Drain clean-up leads to traffic chaos in NFC

A massive traffic jam gripped parts of New Friends Colony and nearby areas on Thursday evening — chaos that is expected to spill over into Friday morning — after mounds of silt from a drain cleaning operation were dumped along a key stretch of CV Raman Marg, leaving only one lane open, traffic police officials said.

- Jignasa Sinha

NEW DELHI:

According to Delhi Traffic Police officers, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) began clearing silt from the Taimoor Nagar drain — which recently saw a high court-mandated large-scale demolition drive—on Thursday morning. But instead of being swiftly removed, the debris was left piled on the road near the connecting bridge, leading to severe bottlenecks.

A bulldozer parked alongside the debris further choked the stretch, turning a two-lane arterial road into a single-lane snarl.