Capital, only a small part of it.

The same story every year. One rain shower and Delhi is under knee deep water with massive traffic jams. Out of 1,011 drains under the Public Works Department just 83 drains have been completely cleaned out. The PWD is under the Delhi government. One official said that they do not have regular staff like municipalities and so have to use contractors to get the job done. Talking about drains one official said, "These waterways are not meant to carry faecal matter and sewage. But we are forced to clean this sort of muck because the drains are connected to the sewers. There is a need to upgrade the sewer network in the city." What were they doing all these years? Delhi is a city with multiple governing agencies. How many? There is the central government with a 73 ministers and a Prime Minister, making a total of 74. The Delhi government has 7 ministers and a Lt Governor, appointed by the central government, to inspect everything that the local government wants to do, which often means that nothing gets done. Then there is the New Delhi Municipal Council, which looks after the center of Delhi, referred to as Lutyens Delhi, named after the British architect Edwin Lutyens, where our modern colonial masters live. There the roads are smooth, drains are cleaned and no one has to wade through filthy water. For the rest of us proles there are 3 Municipal Corporations, North, South and East, which are supposed to provide public services to the millions. For those of us fortunate enough not to have to sleep on pavements or to live in slums, most services, such as security, garbage collection, cleaning streets and maintaining parks, are provided by Resident Welfare Associations which collect subscriptions from residents. With so many authorities toiling away Delhi should be the cleanest, prettiest city in the world. In reality, it is filthy, with broken roads, piles of garbage, blocked drains and unnecessary traffic jams, because lights do not work, and the only duty of the traffic police is to collect fines from drivers. The authorities are apparently struggling to fix potholes on city roads. Why now? What were they doing in the dry season, from September to March? Because repairs are purely cosmetic and will break after one shower so that roads will need to be repaired again. That is where the money is. The High Court in Delhi noted that there are a total of 64,000 cleaning staff in Delhi but the city stinks. That is what the books show. What the court should be asking is how many are working and how many are ghost employees. Cases of Malaria have already been diagnosed, soon Dengue and Chikangunya will follow. Mosquitoes do not understand boundaries. If they infect some of our Lutyens masters maybe something permanent will be done. They are our only hope.