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Just 2-3 hours of heavy rain in August 2020 inundated Jaipur's Walled City, triggering landslides and forcing emergency rescue of a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy from the flooded basement of the Albert Hall Museum. The city's historic 18th-century drainage system had been dismantled over decades by encroachment, metro construction damage, and basement construction blocking water flow, while a 2016 JDA master drainage plan remained unfunded and unimplemented.
The official record states: "Not specified by any government body; contributing factors identified by reporting included encroachment on the Amanishah Nala riverbed, drainage damage during 2016 Jaipur Metro excavation, and a chronically underfunded master drainage plan."
“A drainage plan pending since 2007 forced the rescue of a mummy that had waited 2,300 years for worse.”— Blunderlust Editorial Desk
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Visitor reviews Satire
“Three hours of rain flooded the Walled City and a 2,300-year-old mummy had to be carried out of the Albert Hall basement.”
“The eighteenth-century drainage worked until encroachment, metro excavation and basements finished it off.”
“The master drainage plan has been waiting for funds since 2007, and the mummy has been waiting rather longer for anything worse.”
