Several areas of Delhi have been suffering from severe water-logging this monsoon.
As Gurugram and Bengaluru emerge as top contenders for the water-logging capital of the country, city planners blame heavy rains for the mess.
But as an NDTV investigation into one important Delhi road suggests, the reasons may well be man-made.
Delhi's Savitri Cinema junction - a busy crossing in a posh locality of South Delhi that has been long identified by Delhi Traffic Police as a vulnerable spot for water-logging - was reduced to a puddle for much of the monsoon so far.
The reason is the inadequate clearing of drains clogged with silt and waste - a task for which the Delhi government's Public Works Department has handed out Rs 7.83 crores in contracts over the past year.
According to the government records, the de-silting done for pre-monsoon preparedness on the Savitri Cinema road is 85 per cent complete.
So where has the money gone?
The contract for de-silting this stretch of road was awarded to a company called SNT Infratech in March this year for around Rs 8 lakhs. SNT has multiple contracts with the Delhi Public Works Department.
When NDTV reached this registered office of the company in Delhi's Jasola Vihar, a nervous voice behind the door denied that the place was an office of any sort and claimed it to be a residence which has nothing to do with SNT Infratech.
We called the PWD to ask how a company without a genuine address had got a contract, and whether it was penalised for not doing a proper job, but without luck.
The PWD Minister of Delhi, Satyendar Jain told NDTV said "De-silting on PWD roads has taken place completely. I cannot comment on others."
Shifting the blame on the roads maintained by the BJP-controlled Municipal Corporation of Delhi or MCD, Mr Jain said, "What happens is that when it rains, the silt from the internal, smaller drains comes on to the PWD roads. If internal roads aren't cleaned then silt and waste will accumulate for sure."
The MCD denied these charges. The leader of the house for the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, Subhash Arya passed the blame to the PWD saying, "When it rains, whichever road is clogged should be checked and it will be known which agency it belongs to, who cleaned their drains and who did not."