India, July 30 -- The Municipal Corporation Gurugram (MCG) has suspended a junior engineer and issued a show-cause notice to a private contractor over alleged negligence in monsoon management after heavy rainfall on July 28 triggered severe waterlogging in parts of the city.

According to an official order, the junior engineer was suspended with immediate effect under the Haryana Civil Services (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 2016, for allegedly failing to ensure timely deployment of pump sets in Sectors 14 and 17C. MCG said that despite prior instructions to station pumping equipment at all waterlogging-prone locations before the rains, pump sets were not deployed in time, resulting in prolonged inundation and inconvenience to residents....