INDIA’S capital New Delhi yesterday began evacuating hundreds of residents over the risk of flooding as record rainfall has swelled water levels in a river that runs through the city, its chief minister said.
The Yamuna River has already risen above the ‘danger mark’ and submerged a few adjoining areas in the capital of 20 million people, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, adding that the water levels had surged to a 45-year high. States near Delhi have received record rainfall so far this monsoon season that started June 1, with Punjab and Himachal Pradesh recording 100 per cent and 70pc more rainfall than average respectively, the India Meteorological Department said.
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