Red alert for Gurugram amid heavy rainfall forecast in parts of Haryana

Officials said a cyclonic circulation over northeast Rajasthan and adjoining areas, strong easterly winds, and western disturbances were causing heavy rainfall

Published on: Sep 2, 2025, 11:23:15 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert for Gurugram amid a forecast for heavy rainfall in parts of Haryana even as city received 160mm of rain in 24 hours until 8am on Tuesday.

Commuters making their way through a waterlogged road in Gurugram. (PTI)

Heavy rainfall was expected until 12.30pm in Gurugram and places such as Sohna, Pataudi, Punahana, Hathin, Nuh, Tauru, Kanina, Charkhi Dadri. An IMD official said an orange and yellow alert has been issued for the rest of the state. “After 12.30pm, further warnings about the weather for the next three hours will be issued,” he said.

Officials said a cyclonic circulation over northeast Rajasthan and adjoining areas, strong easterly winds, and western disturbances were causing heavy rainfall. “More than 95% of the precipitation took place post 3pm on Monday when the heavy rainfall started in Gurugram and adjoining areas,” an official said.

Gurugram police commissioner Vikas Kumar Arora and his deputy Ajay Kumar took stock of the waterlogging and traffic jam on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway, Dwarka Expressway, and Sohna elevated road, and other parts of the city after the heavy downpour. People were stuck in traffic for hours. The jam ended by 1am on Tuesday. Over 5,000 police personnel were deployed to ensure the smooth traffic movement.

The Gurugram district administration has directed private firms to ensure that their employees work from home and schools and colleges to conduct online classes on Tuesday.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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