TRAFFIC LITERALLY CRAWLS AFTER HEAVY RAINS LASH PARTS OF CAPITAL
NEW DELHI: Heavy rains lashed parts of the Capital on Sunday with the minimum temperature settling at a pleasant 26 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. As a precaution, the Delhi Traffic Police, on Twitter, kept updating commuters of water-logged areas to be averted.
Water-logging was reported in Dwarka sector-12 at K M Chowk towards Ashirwad Chowk. The situation was no different at Nangloi bus stand in Najafgarh. Commuters faced difficulties in Bahadurgarh bus stand as well.
Water-logging was also reported at Mundka red light, Mahipalpur Chowk towards Gurugram near Rangpuri and Mahipalpur towards Vasantkunj.
The Meteorological Department has forecast cloudy skies, with few spells of light and moderate rains for Monday, while one or two intense spells are also expected.
According to the Met department, the maximum temperature on Suday was recorded at 34.4 degrees Celsius, which is normal for this time of the year.
The humidity level oscillated between 83 per cent, 97 per cent, a Met department official said. The Safdarjung observatory, recording of which is considered the official figure for the city, recorded 7.9 mm rainfall till 8.30 am. Between 8.30 am to 5.30 pm, it received 17.6 mm rainfall.
Meanwhile, areas under Palam, Lodhi Road, Ridge and Ayanagar received 6.2 mm, 10 mm, 23.8 mm and 9.4 mm rains till 8.30 am on Sunday.
For the period between 8.30 am to 5.30 pm, areas under Palam, Lodhi Road, Ridge and Ayanagar received 64.8 mm, 16.9 mm, 7.6 mm and nil rainfall.
“The maximum and minimum temperature is likely to hover around 35 and 26 degrees Celsius tomorrow,” the weatherman said for Monday. GURUGRAM: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday kicked of setting up of one of the most significant clean energy projects in Gurugram with the inauguration of the rooftop solar power plant in the Army Welfare Housing society in Devender Vihar.
Once completed, not only will this rooftop solar plant generate 348 kilowatts of electricity, it will also produce 4,35,000 units of power in a year, thus saving Rs 39 lakh for consumers annually.
Speaking at the inauguration programme, Khattar said there are 600 solar energy projects slated to be launched in Gurugram in the near future. He also mentioned that while the country has set a target of producing one lakh MW of solar power by 2022, Haryana has set a goal of producing 4,000 MW.
The state government is also expected to provide subsidies to public agencies in the city and could start talks with representatives of condominium societies, malls, and commercial offices.
There are plans to also work on coordination with private builders to develop solar power facilities in upcoming housing and commercial spaces.
For a city that riddled with power outages, solar panels could become a major form of power production. However, despite several schemes and awareness programmes, solar power generation is yet to gain traction in the Millennium city.
There were plans to power street lights in the city through solar power, some of which are seen in DLF Phase-3, but the project could not carried out on a large scale by government agencies.