Orange Alert For 9 Districts...
The state has received 70per cent of the total rainfall...
On Thursday, July 27, 2023, The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert for severe rainfall in the nine Himachal Pradesh districts including Shimla, Solan, Mandi etc.
"Orange alerts for heavy rainfall have been issued for the Shimla, Solan, Sirmaur, Mandi, Bilaspur, Kangra, Chamba, Hamirpur and Una districts during the next three days.
The rain will continue as if for now. If we see the records of the past 100 years, this year will be the highest rainfall year.
It has broken all old records so far in the state," said Surender Paul, head of IMD (Shimla), on Wednesday.
"There has been light rainfall during the past 24 hours in the state. Landslides and fog in the region are also predicted.
The monsoon will continue till September. Monsoon so far there has been 530 mm of rainfall which is high. We have received 734 mm of rain during the monsoon.
We have received 70percent prescription of the total rainfall. We have two more months of the monsoon season. We have issued an advisory and have also issued an orange alert," Mr. Paul further added.
The Revenue Minister of the state government, Jagat Singh Negi said that the alert is continued and all are prepared in the field.
"The heavy rain has destroyed roads, drinking and irrigation water supply schemes and there has been a loss of over 6000 Crore rupees.
188 people have died so far, 194 people are injured and a total of 652 houses have been damaged with nearly 6500 houses damaged partially," Mr Negi said.
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