India, May 30 -- Even as continued heavy rain flooded the city roads once again this week, laying bare the limitations of its ageing drainage network, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) iterated that it is drawing up fresh plans to expand and upgrade its stormwater network given that rainfall intensity now far exceeds the design capacity of the existing pipelines.

While parts of the city received nearly 100 mm of rainfall this week, PMC engineers maintained that the current system, built to handle no more than 65 mm of rain, is simply not equipped for such extreme events that are now becoming the norm every monsoon.

Jagdish Khanore, chief superintendent engineer, drainage department, PMC, said, "Our drainage lines are based on old ass...