Heavy rain lashes several states, red alert sounded in Maharashtra,Karnataka

By DAYANAND MOHITE | published: August 08, 2019 01:54 PM 2019-02-12T14:15:30+5:30

city : mumbai

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday issued a red alarm for a few locale of Karnataka and Kerala even as substantial downpours lashed in confined spots at beach front Karnataka, Konkan, Goa, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Gujarat.

"Substantial to overwhelming precipitation likely at secluded places over West Madhya Pradesh, East Rajasthan, Madhya Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, Gujarat locale, East Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, West Rajasthan and, Karnataka," the IMD said.

Solid breezes, arriving at 40-50 kmph, were probably going to beat the north, focal and southwest Arabian Sea, focal and south Bay of Bengal and along and off West Coast and West Bengal-Odisha-Andhra coasts and the Andaman Sea. The IMD further prompted the anglers not to wander into these zones.

Maharashtra -: At least 16 individuals kicked the bucket and a few others were harmed in Maharashtra even has 1.4 lakh individuals have been cleared from five locale of Pune division – Solapur, Sangli, Satara, Kolhapur, and Pune, which are among the areas seriously hit by perpetual downpours.

Five groups of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were transported from Punjab on Thursday for salvage activities in Maharashtra. They will land in Pune and afterward spread to flood-influenced territories of Sangli, Kolhapur, and Pune. On Wednesday, four NDRF groups from Goa, and 14 Navy groups arrived at Maharashtra to encourage search and salvage tasks.

All schools and universities will stay shut in whole Kolhapur locale, three tehsils of Pune area and five tehsils of Sangli region following the red alarm for overwhelming precipitation issued by IMD.

At any rate 19 prepares on Mumbai-Pune division of Central Railway and on Milaj-Londa area of Western Railway have been dropped because of substantial precipitation and waterlogging. Around 5,000 trucks on Pune-Bengaluru roadway in Maharashtra are adhered due to waterlogging detailed as profound as four-five feet.

Karnataka -: As the heavy deluge kept on unleashing destruction in Karnataka, the IMD issued a red alarm for Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada waterfront region for Thursday. The state government shut down schools, universities, and Anganwadi in Kodagu, Dharwad, Mangaluru, Hassan, Belagavi, Mysuru, Karwar and Udupi areas for Thursday and Friday in perspective on red alarm declared by individual locale experts because of unending precipitation.

As indicated by news organization ANI, there has been an expansion in water level in Mysuru's Kabini Dam by 46,000 cusecs of water. The water level in the dam is at 2281.5 feet and greatest level is 2284 feet, even as 40,000 cusecs of water has been discharged fr

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