Heavy rains continued in Mumbai and its adjoining areas on Tuesday, causing water-logging at many places, including railway tracks, and a rapid rise in the water level of some rivers. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has directed government officials to accord top priority to prevent loss of life and property in rain-related incidents and appealed to citizens living in dangerous buildings to cooperate with the civic authorities.
Heavy rains have been lashing the state since Monday, with water-logging at many places, slowing down the movement of trains and vehicles on the roads.
Here are the top 10 points related to the rainfall conditions in Mumbai and its adjoining areas:
- The Chief Minister, during his visit to the disaster control room of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), today reviewed the rain situation and said that more than 3,500 people have been evacuated from flood prone and vulnerable places across the state. He said teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed wherever necessary and more personnel would be sent if needed.
- Shinde spoke to the collectors of Raigad, Ratnagiri and some other districts for which he India The Meteorological Department (IMD) had issued ‘Red’ and ‘Orange’ alerts, predicting very heavy to very heavy rains.
- Shinde asked Mumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal to depute a ward officer to supervise, arrange additional BEST (civilian) and state transport buses to ferry the stranded passengers and provide them tea and snacks. Is.
- Powai lake in Mumbai began to swell amid heavy rains, a civic official said, adding that the lake has a storage capacity of 54.5 crore liters and started overflowing at 6:15 pm.
- According to an official statement, Kundlika river has crossed the danger mark in Raigad district and the water level of Amba, Savitri, Patalganga, Ulhas and Garhi rivers have reached the danger mark.
- Normal life was adversely affected in the metropolis and there was no immediate respite in the form of moderate to heavy rains in Mumbai and its suburbs in the next 24 hours as predicted by the IMD. IMD has issued ‘Orange Alert’ for South Konkan region and Goa and ‘Yellow Alert’ for North Konkan, North-central and South-central Maharashtra and Marathwada regions.
- The BMC said south Mumbai received an average of 95.81 mm of rainfall in the 24-hour period ending 8 am, while the eastern and western suburbs recorded 115.09 mm and 116.73 mm of rain, respectively, during the same period. Between 8 am and 11.30 am, the island city (South Mumbai) received an average of 41 mm of rain, while the eastern and western suburbs received 85 mm and 55 mm of rain, respectively.
- Officials said boulders fell from a hill in Thane and a house in neighboring Palghar collapsed following heavy rains. However, there is no report of any casualty in both the incidents so far.
- Four main roads in the north-west part of Mumbai had to be closed for traffic. These subways, named Golibar, Milan, Andheri and Malad, connect the east and west parts of the north-western suburbs, which are otherwise divided by Western Railway tracks.
- Traffic police personnel were deployed at various places to avoid vehicular congestion due to heavy rains. Citizens also complained of water logging in Gandhi Market and areas of Kurla and Dharavi, resulting in inconvenience to motorists and pedestrians.
(with inputs from PTI)
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