The Dhanwapur underpass, a key hyperlink connecting Previous Gurugram to new sectors alongside Dwarka Expressway, will quickly bear restore work, officers mentioned on Tuesday. The 900-metre-long underground passage in Sector 104 has been submerged resulting from frequent waterlogging and leakage from its inside partitions because it turned operational in April, mentioned officers aware about matter.
A senior official on the public works division (PWD) in Gurugram confirmed that the contractor assigned for the upkeep of the underpass has been directed to proceed with the patchwork. “The patchwork within the inside tubular space, which comes below the jurisdiction of the Indian Railways, will probably be accomplished by December. The contractor will restore the leakages reported from its joints,” the senior official mentioned.
In response to officers, the 5.5 metre deep underpass underwent waterproofing work in late 2024, nonetheless, the layering didn’t maintain resulting from extreme groundwater ranges surrounding the passage, maintained by each the PWD and the Northern Railways. Water stress across the underground tunnel chamber reaches 5 metres through the monsoon or peak ranges, additional depositing contained in the underpass.
In the meantime, residents and significantly faculty youngsters are pressured to go by way of the underpass stuffed with knee-deep muddy water. “The scholars of close by faculties and commuters who typically take the route discover it troublesome to navigate by way of the underpass safely. Day-after-day round 12.30pm, a tanker comes to empty off the water. However there isn’t a everlasting answer to this water clogging,” mentioned Mahesh Kumar, a resident of Hero Properties in Sector 104.
One other resident, Durgesh Pathak of Sector 99a, mentioned that he had been utilizing an alternate 6-kilometer-long route by way of sectors 4 and 9 to keep away from the underpass. “It’s a nightmare to journey by way of the underpass on two-wheelers. Through the wet season, even four-wheelers break down contained in the underpass resulting from excessive water ranges,” mentioned Pathak.
Charandeep Singh Rana, government engineer at PWD, mentioned momentary pumps have been deployed within the underpass to clear the deposited water. “Tendering course of to obtain full-time pumps is underway. A young will probably be floated by Wednesday to deploy pumps within the underground passage to repair the waterlogging situation completely,” mentioned Rana.
Officers at Northern Railways refused to acknowledge any leakages within the underpass. “State authorities had performed water leakage therapy final yr, however the leakage has began once more,” a senior official answerable for the underpass’s maintenance mentioned, refusing to take accountability for the debilitating situation of the underpass.
PWD had earlier issued a letter to the regional railway authorities in November asking them to provoke restore work once more after district administration officers, together with the sub-division Justice of the Peace (SDM) of Gurugram, Paramjeet Chahal, inspected the stretch in November 2025.
A workforce of Municipal Company of Gurugram (MCG), which inspected the underpass and close by areas in November, discovered no leakages from sewer traces, in response to PWD officers.
