India, June 4 -- A brief spell of pre-monsoon rain was enough to force the closure of the Andheri subway on Wednesday morning, even as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) claimed it has completed more than 100% of its desilting targets and said that flood-mitigation measures are in place.

The civic body said it has installed 547 dewatering pumps across Mumbai and integrated them with the city's Disaster Management Department's central monitoring dashboard. Another 403 pumps have been installed by railway authorities, taking the city's total flood-response network to nearly 950 pumps.

Officials said all portable pumps are now equipped with IoT-based systems, allowing real-time monitoring and remote operation through smartphones ...