India, Sept. 3 -- After a heavy spell of rain submerged parts of Delhi's posh Lutyens' area last week, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has suspended an executive engineer for dereliction of duty. The suspension comes days after major stretches and prominent places of the NDMC area got waterlogged on August 26, and its chairman, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, publicly apologised for the waterlogging situation and acknowledged that the response of the civic body had been short.

"There was more than 72 mm rainfall in less than 2 hours and this was quite unexpected, but this cannot be an excuse, and we will have to strengthen our systems to deal with such situations in future," Dwivedi had posted on X.

He said that under usual circumstances th...