India, June 29 -- The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has yet to complete desilting work at 87 of its 155 identified waterlogging hotspots, while work at 68 locations has been finished, officials said. This comes as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasts the monsoon's arrival in Delhi-NCR by the first week of July.

According to data accessed by HT, desilting has yet to begin at 29 of these 87 hotspots, while work at the remaining sites is ongoing.

Officials said the MCG has classified these hotspots across the city's eight zones into three categories: minor, moderate and hypercritical. A hotspot is classified as minor if water recedes within two hours, moderate if waterlogging persists for two to three hours, and hy...