Waterlogging, pollution are legacy problems, working to find solutions: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) said her authorities has got bequest problems similar waterlogging and contamination and is moving to find their solutions.

CM Gupta inspected the desilting enactment astatine Sunehri Nala successful New Delhi and slammed the erstwhile Congress and Aam Aadmi Party governments implicit contamination and drainage issues.

"The Sunehri Nala was built, but determination was nary introduction constituent for workers to cleanable it. We are desilting drains. Be it waterlogging, silt successful the drain oregon pollution, we person lone got bequest problems. The authorities is moving to find solutions to problems. We person installed mist sprayers, but it volition instrumentality clip for results to beryllium visible," she told reporters.

Hitting retired astatine Congress and AAP, she said they were successful powerfulness for 15 and 10 years, respectively, but did not bash anything.

"They lone did the enactment of giving symptom to Delhiites portion we are moving to heal the sufferings of people," she added. She was accompanied by Delhi Water Minister Parvesh Verma during the inspection.

Her remarks travel a time aft she was greeted with chants of "AQI, AQI" erstwhile she went connected the signifier to greet planetary shot icon Lionel Messi astatine the Arun Jaitley stadium.

The nationalist capital's aerial prime saw immoderate betterment connected Tuesday (December 16) morning, with an AQI of 377 arsenic against 498 a time ago, adjacent arsenic smog blanketed the city, shivering astatine 8.3 degrees Celsius during the greeting hours, reducing visibility.