'Horrifying to the core': Gurgaon rain traps kids in school buses for over 7 hours
Hundreds of students in Gurgaon were trapped in school buses for up to seven hours due to severe waterlogging caused by monsoon rains. The incident has sparked widespread parental outrage over the city's failing civic infrastructure and lack of emergency management.
Why it matters
The event highlights the vulnerability of urban infrastructure in rapidly developing cities to extreme weather events, impacting public safety and trust in government.
GURGAON: When a student of Class II returned home on Monday, she was traumatised and stressed. Kiara, who had left school in Sector 47 at 12.30pm, reached home in Sector 51 at 8.30pm.There were many more like her, who spent anywhere between 3-6 hours in school buses before they could finally reach home as a monsoon downpour flooded roads and left buses stranded on Monday afternoon, leaving hundreds of parents bitter and seething about the city's civic infrastructure.Parents could do little beyond calling the school, tracking buses and exchanging updates on messaging groups. A series of messages exchanged among parents captured the anxiety as school transport got stuck at severely waterlogged stretches, particularly around Subhash Chowk. "Have the kids reached home?" an anxious parent asked in a group. The replies offered little reassurance. As rain battered the city, their hearts pounded. The helplessness deepened as the hours passed.
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