Chandigarh, June 16 -- With monsoon expected to hit the city in 10 days, officials of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) on Monday claimed that it had cleaned 60% of the road gullies and stormwater drains across the city, is expediting the work to meet the June 30 deadline.

The MC is responsible for cleaning 30,452 road gullies ahead of the monsoon, out of which 18,271 have been cleaned. However, in several vulnerable areas, especially low-lying zones such as Mauli Jagran Complex, Charan Singh Colony, Vikas Nagar, Shivalik Enclave, Raipur Kalan, Daria and Sunder Nagar, nearly 50% of the cleaning work is pending. Even a moderate spell of rain is enough to inundate these areas.

Last monsoon, the city had witnessed widespread floodi...