Gurugram, July 30 -- Continuous morning rainfall for over an hour on Tuesday led to widespread traffic jams and waterlogging across key areas of Gurugram, disrupting office-hour commutes and slowing vehicular movement on arterial roads, officials said. According to traffic police, congestion was reported on several major stretches, including Narsinghpur, Rajiv Chowk, and the Sirhaul border on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway (NH-48); MG Road; Old Delhi-Gurugram Road; Golf Course Road (near Sector 56); Golf Course Extension Road; and the Southern Peripheral Road. Internal roads also witnessed waterlogging-related snarls, officials added. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Gurugram recorded 11mm of rainfall till 8.30am Tuesday, with an additional 8.5mm recorded till 5.30pm. Officials said most of the rainfall occurred in the morning. Traffic in the older parts of the city, including Sikanderpur, Sadar Bazaar, Civil Lines, and Kargil Shaheed Sukhbir Singh Yadav Marg, was similarly affected during the morning rush hour. "Though the water receded in a few hours due to reduced intensity of rainfall, it did affect the office goers in the morning time," said assistant commissioner of police (traffic headquarters) Satyapal Yadav. To ease traffic buildup on NH-48, police deployed at least eight to ten dewatering pumps at Rajiv Chowk and near Narsinghpur. "Waterlogging of five to seven inches had taken place at these locations. Due to waterlogging at Rajiv Chowk, the traffic movement towards Sohna was getting affected, which was cleared by immediately deploying additional traffic police personnel at the spot," Yadav said. The ACP added that road cave-ins were reported on Rao Gajraj Singh Marg and the NH-48 service road near Shankar Chowk, both caused by erosion along the green belt. However, traffic movement remained unaffected. "Traffic zonal officers were asked to rope in contractors and earthmoving machines who got the craters filled to avoid any accident without waiting for any delay due to the involvement of other government bodies," Yadav said. Ashvani, a senior manager with a private bank's branch on MG Road, said it took her almost 50 minutes to reach office on Tuesday morning from her residence in Sector-4. She said that on normal days it takes 20-25 minutes to reach the office. "There was severe traffic snarl at several locations on the route due to water-logging which includes Sector 4/5 chowk and other areas," she said, adding that she left home early on Tuesday morning to avoid getting late as she had well anticipated the congestion due to waterlogging. The district logged a maximum temperature of 28.6degC with the minimum at 26.1degC, marking a 6.1degC drop in daytime temperature compared to Monday and a 0.4degC dip in the minimum temperature. Following the rain, Gurugram's air quality index (AQI) retained its "satisfactory" reading but improved to 54 from Monday's 65 mark. In response to the waterlogging, Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) officials said that dewatering pumps were already kept ready at several locations across the city. "The situation was being monitored with the help of ground teams as well by taking inputs from traffic police. Except at a few locations, the accumulated rain water receded slowly within a few hours after getting drained to severs and storm water drains," officials added....