India monsoon July 27 updates | Waterlogging in low-lying areas of Mumbai after incessant rains, slow road traffic in some areas

Heavy rains in Mumbai on Thursday resulted in water-logging in several areas, traffic jams on most arterial roads and delay in suburban train services of both Western and Central Railways, officials said.

The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Mumbai centre had issued a ‘red’ alert for Mumbai and neighbouring Raigad district on Thursday, predicting “heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places”.

For Friday, the IMD has issued a ‘yellow’ alert for Mumbai, predicting heavy rainfall at isolated places.

The intensity of rains was greater in the island city (the areas in the southern part till the causeway in Mahim) in the first half of Thursday, while the suburbs received heavy rains since late afternoon, with Dahisar in the north getting rainfall of 185.41 millimetres, they added.

As per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s rain data, the figure was 146.80 for Borivali West, 133 mm in Kandivali, both on the northern edge of the metropolis, while it was 103 mm in Colaba and 101 mm in Fort area at the southern tip.

The average rainfall for the island city, eastern and west suburbs was 83.23 mm, 62.72 mm and 95.01 mm, respectively, between 8 am to 6 pm.

Civic officials said water-logging was witnessed in Matunga, DN Nagar, Byculla, Trombay, Azad Maidan, Kandivali, Kalbadevi, Oshiwara, Dahisar, Magathane at 3:30pm, with water being almost half-feet in most of these areas.

North-bound traffic was slow in the evening and caused hardships to people en route to their homes from offices, most of which are concentrated in the southern part of the city and Bandra etc, the official pointed out.

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Heavy rains lashed parts of Thane district in Maharashtra on Thursday, where many families were shifted to safety from several residential areas mainly due to water-logging, which also affected the movement of traffic on two major highways, officials said.

A 32-year-old man was swept away in a swollen nullah near a creek in Kalwa town of Thane district while he was fishing amid intense showers, they said.

Due to incessant rains, many low-lying areas in Bhiwandi and Mira Bhayandar in Thane district, while Vasai and Virar in Palghar district were inundated, the officials said.

Chief of Disaster Management Cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) Yasin Tadvi said a man, identified only as Dosa, had gone near a creek in Kalwa around 11.30 am for fishing when he fell into a nearby nullah and got swept away.

Local firemen and Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) personnel carried out a search for the man for more than three hours, but did not find him, he said.

Thane city received 88.88 mm rainfall from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm on Thursday, Tadvi said, adding that the total rainfall that the city recorded this monsoon season was 2,172.65 mm, which was 1,443.97 mm for the corresponding period last year.

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Kinnaur and Spiti Valley, both tribal districts, have been cut off from Shimla, the state capital, following the blockade of National Highway 5 (Hindustan-Tibet Road) due to rock falling, landslides, and sinking of road.

The National Highway has been blocked at Baroni, Manglad, and Pashada near Jhakri in the Rampur Subdivision of Shimla.

Alternate routes are also closed due to heavy rains and landslides.

The Luhri-Aut National Highway (305) is also blocked at three places and gushing waters have entered many houses.

Stranded, drivers of public transport vehicles are running out of food and trying to cross the blocked stretches on foot.

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As many as 160 tourists to a waterfall in Mulugu district of Telangana, who were stuck in the forest area unable to cross an overflowing stream, were rescued safely by the personnel of NDRF and others in the early hours of Thursday.

The tourists had gone to Mutyamdhara waterfall in Mulugu district on Wednesday and were stuck there as a stream was in spate making it difficult for them to come out of the forest area, official sources said.

After receiving information about it, state Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Women and Child Welfare Minister Satyavati Rathod and Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud spoke to the officials about rescuing the tourists safely.

Personnel of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), police, forest department and others reached the tourists late on Wednesday.

About 160 tourists were safely rescued and brought to the mandal headquarters village of Venkatapuram around 4 AM on Thursday, a release from the Tourism Minister’s office said.

The tourists were then sent to their destinations.

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A 32-year-old man was swept away in a swollen nullah near a creek while fishing amid intense showers on Thursday in Kalwa town of Thane district, civic officials said.

Chief of Disaster Management Cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) Yasin Tadvi said the man, identified only as Dosa, had gone near the creek at around 11.30 a.m. for fishing when he fell into the nearby nullah and got swept away.

Local firemen and Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) personnel carried out a search for the man for more than three hours, but did not find him, he said. - PTI

Incessant rains in Mumbai on Thursday caused waterlogging in some low-lying areas as well on railway tracks near Marine Lines in south Mumbai and road traffic slowed down in some parts of the city.

The civic body operated pumps to drain out water at Marine Lines and some other places. Commuters complained of waterlogging on tracks between Churchgate and Marine Lines stations, but the Western Railway said the train services was not disturbed.

Due to the rain and potholes on roads, traffic slowed down in some areas.

The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Mumbai centre issued a ‘red’ alert for Mumbai and neighbouring Raigad district on Thursday, predicting “heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places”, a civic official said.

The island city, eastern and western suburbs received an average rainfall of 50.87 mm, 32.13 mm and 23.55 mm, respectively, from 8 am to 1 pm on Thursday.

For adjoining Thane and Palghar districts, the weather bureau has issued an ‘orange’ alert, with a forecast of heavy to very heavy downpour at isolated places, the official said.

For Friday, the IMD has issued a ‘yellow’ alert for Mumbai, predicting heavy rainfall at isolated places, he said. -- PTI

The Southern Railway, as part of precautionary measures, has announced diversion of five trains originating from Chennai and other places due to overflowing of rainwater in the bridge of Hasanparthi-Kazipet route.

In a press release, the Southern Railway has issued an alert suspending the operation of train services until further on the Hasanparthi-Kazipet route in Telangana State due to flooding of tracks by diverting the trains including the Chennai to Ahmedabad and the Andaman express operated from Dr. MGR Central station to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra through an alternative route.

With rain in the catchment area continuing, inflow at Bhavanisagar dam continues to be more than 7,300 cusecs, in Erode, on July 27.

At 2 p.m., the water level stood at 81.71 feet against the full reservoir level of 105 feet. The inflow was 7,397 cusecs while the discharge was 800 cusecs into Arakankottai and Thadapalli canals, 100 cusecs into Kalingarayan Canal and 200 cusecs into River Bhavani. The storage was 17.16 tmc ft against its capacity of 32.80 tmc ft. The average inflow in the last 24 hours was 7,316 cusecs.

South Central Railway has been forced to cancel or partially cancel and divert as many as eight trains following inundation of track between Hasanparthi and Warangal on Thursday morning.

Among the trains cancelled are Tirupati Karimnagar superfast express train, Secunderabad-Kagaznagar superfast express, while Yeshwanthpur to Nizamuddin Express has been diverted via Akola avoiding Ballarshah as also Yashwantpur-Gorakhpur train.

Secunderabad-Nizamuddin express has been diverted via Wadi and Manmad avoiding Kazipet and Balharshah stations and Renigunta-Nizamuddin diverted via Nizamabad and Adilabad.

Flash floods in a local stream triggered by incessant downpour marooned Moranchapalli village in the rain-battered Telangana’s Jayashankar Bhupalpally district, leaving the villagers stranded on the roof-tops of their houses and trees since morning.

Videos of the panic-stricken villagers making fervent appeals to the authorities to save them surfaced on social media this morning.

Following the distress calls, the official machinery swung into action and dispatched NDRF teams along with inflatable rubber boats and other equipment to rescue them.

Erstwhile Medak district has received heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours. Several roads were closed as the roads were either cut or streams are overflowing. In Medak district, a mother and daughter were injured as a house was collapsed.

In Siddipet district, Husnabad received 162 mm rainfall, followed by Koheda 118 mm rainfall. A total of 1928.3 mm rainfall was recorded in the district with two mandal receiving very heavy rainfall and 15 mandals receiving heavy rainfall.

In the wake of heavy rains in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district over the last few days, the water level of the Panchganga river has crossed the warning mark, officials said on Thursday.

Residents of six villages located on the river banks have been asked to shift to safer places, they said. As per the district disaster cell, the level of the Panchganga river at Rajaram weir was at 40.6 feet at 11 a.m. on Thursday.

A delegation of the Punjab BJP on Thursday met Governor Banwarilal Purohit on the flood issue, highlighting that the AAP government allegedly “failed” to take measures on time despite warnings of heavy rainfall to prevent losses suffered by farmers.

“We have requested the governor that answers should be sought from this government so that people of Punjab come to know how because of negligence on part of the AAP dispensation, the heavy losses caused due to floods could have been prevented,” Sunil Jakhar told reporters outside the Rah Bhavan after meeting the governor.

“About 27 colonies & villages have been evacuated. A total of 790 families, consisting of 2321 members have been evacuated so far. We have taken up rescue operations and it is continuing since last night,” said Bhadradri Kothagudem District Collector Priyanka Ala.

The service road near Rajendranagar Toll Plaza has also been closed to traffic due to release of water from the Himayatsagar Reservoir. The closure of these exits has not stopped the flow of traffic on the all-weather ORR. However, air traveller would be affected due to these closures.

As many as 80 tourists, who were stranded in the forested region near the Muthyala Dhara waterfall in Venkatapuram mandal of Mulugu district on July 26 night, were rescued by joint teams of the police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Disaster Response Force personnel in the early hours today.

The rescue operation began on July 26 night soon after the tourists made a distress call by dialing ‘100’ after a swollen stream trapped them in the forests while they were returning from a sightseeing tour of the waterfall through a trekking path.

The irrigation and revenue authorities have issued a red alert to people of 12 villages along the river course of Kaddam to vacate their homes immediately as the nightmare of unprecedented flood to the Kaddam Narayana Reddy project in the upstream is repeated for the second year in a row. They were being shifted to nearby government installations/relief camps.

Against the designed discharge capacity of 3.82 lakh cusecs through 18 spillway gates, the flood waters being let out was only around 2.42 lakh cusecs through 14 gates as the project engineers made a vain bid to operate/lift the remaining 4 gates. According to the irrigation authorities gate numbers 2, 4, 6 and 12 were struck and there was no chance of operating them now. Read more

As many as 160 tourists to a waterfall in Mulugu district of Telangana, who were stuck in the forest area unable to cross an overflowing stream, were rescued safely by the personnel of NDRF and others in the early hours of Thursday.

The tourists had gone to Mutyamdhara waterfall in Mulugu district on Wednesday and were stuck there as a stream was in spate making it difficult for them to come out of the forest area, official sources said. - PTI

Narendra Nagar Railway Under Bridge (RuB) and Airport entry road are closed due to waterlogging.

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The city was battered with heavy downpour on Wednesday under the influence of a well-marked low pressure area close to the coast as part of active Southwest Monsoon.

Visakhapatnam District Education Department announced a holiday for all schools in the district on July 27 as the India Meteorological Department, which issued Orange and Yellow warnings for Alluri Sitama Raju district and Green for Visakhapatnam district till the morning of July 28.

Road communication has been cut off to some villages between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as some streams are overflowing at Nandigama, Tiruvuru, Vissannapeta and other Penuganchiprole and other areas, on Wednesday.

Road links have been snapped as the Munneru river is flowing on the main road between Lingala and Chityala. The Wyra river is in spate between Pallampalli and Damuluru village in Veerulapadu village in NTR District, said Nandigama Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) K. Janardhan Naidu.

While many places did not actually see heavy rain as was forecast, the Southwest Monsoon has been active over Telangana and very heavy rainfall had occurred at isolated places in Mulugu, Kothagudem, Khammam, Karimnagar, Suryapet and Wanaparthy districts of Telangana on Wednesday.

Udupi Deputy Commissioner K. Vidyakumari has extended the holiday for all anganwadis, schools, and pre-university colleges in Udupi district to Thursday in view of continued heavy rains.

In Dakshina Kannada, Deputy Commissioner M.P. Mullai Muhilan extended the holiday to July 27 only for anganwadis and schools and not for pre-university colleges. The holiday has not been declared for degree colleges in the twin districts.

Meanwhile, heavy rains claimed the life of a 32-year-old person at the fishing harbour in the city on Tuesday.