Overview

• At the Old Railway Bridge, the river fell from a season high of 207.48 m to 207.12 m by Friday 6 p.m., remaining above the 205.33 m danger mark and the 206 m evacuation mark.
• Delhi authorities report nearly 18,000 people affected, 35 relief camps in operation, four NDRF teams deployed in Kalindi Kunj, and thousands evacuated by boat in the East district.
• Flooding has disrupted services as the Delhi Jal Board cut output at the Wazirabad water plant by 20% due to turbidity, some relief tents were inundated, traffic diversions were imposed, and Nigambodh Ghat was shut.
• Upstream discharges in the lakh-cusec range from Hathnikund and Okhla kept flows high; in Faridabad, water entered 27 villages, damaging 260 houses and prompting the evacuation of more than 600 people to 12 camps.
• The surge is part of a wider monsoon emergency across North India, with landslides and closures in Himachal and Jammu & Kashmir, even as some regions such as Punjab and the Kashmir Valley began to see modest easing.