People shifted to safer places and NDRF is deployed as heavy rain lashes over Mumbai
Mumbai and the adjoining areas have been facing heavy rains, the situation got much worse on Tuesday as the railway tracks and various places faced waterlogging. Maharashtra’s currently appointed Chief Minister Eknath Shinde ordered government officials to prioritise the lives of people and to prevent life loss in rain-related accidents. Mr Shinde also appealed to the citizens in more danger-prone areas to cooperate with the civic officials.
The state has been raining heavily since Monday which has caused schedule changes in trains and traffic on roads as waterlogging increases.
The Chief Minister reviewed the situation today while his visit to the Brihanmumbai Municipality Corporation’s (BMC) disaster control. He said 3,500 people have been relocated to safer places from the flood-prone spots across the state. Mr Shinde also reported that teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed in required spots and more personnel will be sent if needed.
Mr Shinde spoke to Mumbai municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal as he requested him to deploy a ward officer to supervise and arrange state transport buses to ferry stranded passengers and to also provide them with food and water.
Mumbai has been witnessing such heavy rain that Powai Lake reportedly began overflowing, as per a civic official. The river has a storage capacity of over 545 crore litres and at 6:15 it started overflowing. The kundalika river in Raigad district also crossed the danger mark. The water levels of Amba, Savitri, Patalganga, Ulhas and Gadhi rivers have just been dangling over the danger mark.
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