Chandigarh was built as a planned city. So why does it keep sinking in the rain?

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh was designed to be different — a city of sectors, wide roads, planned green spaces and carefully engineered infrastructure.Yet, every monsoon, the same question returns: how can a city built around such meticulous planning repeatedly turn into a maze of flooded roads, stranded vehicles and submerged markets? Tuesday’s deluge offered another uncomfortable answer.A mere two hours of intense rain was enough to expose how vulnerable parts of the city have become.72.4mm and the city starts to sinkThe city got 72.4mm of rain in just two hours, the heaviest two-hour downpour of the current monsoon season.What followed was something familiar but harder to ignore as an occasional monsoon quirk: roads turned into rivers, cars were stranded in waist-high water, houses and shops were flooded and thousands of commuters were stuck in traffic jams.The worst affected stretches were not in one corner of Chandigarh.