on saturday the residents remained confined to their homes my entire garden was submerged in water the water receded only after nearly threefour hours i have been living here for nearly 35 years and never seen a situation like this said resident manjeet singh puniya people couldnt step out as vehicles broke down and the entire stretch which has a lot of office complexes got jammed said manmohan sharma executive secretary indian association of parliamentarians on population and development the situation was the same in south extension partii which is across the road in siri fort institutional area basements of office complexes got flooded we pay the highest property tax in the city and are still deprived of basic civic services said a fuming manav seth secretary of friends colony west rwa in chittaranjan park water gushed into the ground floor of several houses it is hard to believe that in just one hour of rain the entire area has got flooded after 20 years south delhi municipal corporation recently relayed the drainage system in south extensioni at a cost of rs 4 crore we were happy that this time we wont have to face waterlogging during monsoon but the civic agency has done a shoddy job our roads were submerged in ankledeep water and it took a lot of time for it to clear said manjeet singh chugh secretary of south extension parti rwa bses had to shut down power supply for six hours to prevent any untoward incident people complained that since the stormwater drains were not desilted properly they were overflowing but the money was washed away in saturdays deluge as the colony got flooded in some houses basements were flooded this is a routine problem and the civic agencies have failed to find a solution said arun malhotra a resident of nizamuddin west and president of ngo citizens for action new delhi the situation was worse in lowlying areas like nizamuddin west which are prone to waterlogging the cars were parked in 2ft deep water a few kilometres away friends colony west got submerged in kneedeep water