300 People Stuck In Rajasthan Floods

Army Deployed For Rescue Ops

On Wednesday, 24 August 2022, The Army was deployed to rescue nearly 300 people stranded in a flood-like situation in Rajasthan's Bundi district, officials said.

Bundi collector Ravindra Goswami said around 300 people are stuck at four locations in low lying areas in Lakheri.

The area is inundated due to inflow of water in the Mej river flowing through the district.

He said the Army was deployed to lead the rescue operations.

Kota Collector O P Bunkar said several areas in the district are waterlogged and nearly 2,000 people have been shifted to safer places from the flood affected areas in the past two days. Many people are still stuck in five villages.

He said 4.71 lakh cusecs of water is being released from Kota barrage on Wednesday. In Jhalawar, the situation was under control.

"Mitigation part and assessment of damage is now under process as most of the people have returned to their homes after water started receding at 4 am today,” Jhalawar collector Bharti Dixit said Around 50,000 cusecs of water was released through four gates of Kalisindh dam early in the morning and water has receded in low lying areas, she said.

Meanwhile, very heavy rainfall was recorded at some places in Sirohi, Udaipur, Jalore, Barmer and Jaisalmer districts during the past 24 hours ending at 8.30 am.

Rainfall of 143 mm occurred at Bhinmal in Jalore, followed by 120 mm at Deldar in Sirohi, the meteorological department said.

Light to moderate rainfall is likely to occur at some places in Jaisalmer and Barmer districts.

There will be no heavy rainfall warning in the state for the next five days, it said.