Maharashtra floods claim 16 lives, over 1.4 lakh evacuated; NDRF, Army, Navy and Coast Guard deploye

By DAYANAND MOHITE | published: August 08, 2019 02:09 PM 2019-02-12T14:15:30+5:30

city : mumbai

In any event 16 people kicked the bucket and a few increasingly harmed after floods, actuated by substantial precipitation, unleashed ruin in the territory of Maharashtra. More than 140,000 individuals have been cleared from five regions of Pune division – Solapur, Sangli, Satara, Kolhapur and Pune, said Pune Divisional Commissioner Deepak Mhaisekar.

All schools and universities will stay shut in whole Kolhapur area, three tehsils of Pune locale and five tehsils of Sangli region following the red caution for substantial precipitation issued by India Meteorological Department. Sangli area recorded a general precipitation of 213 percent while Satara and Pune got 173 percent and 166 percent precipitation. Kolhapur got 116 percent downpour and Solapur 78 percent.

The dreary circumstance is probably going to proceed for the following three days, cautioned the climate office. Almost 2,56,755 natives are living without power in Pune region alone, said Mhaisekar.

Salvage and basic administrations including the state wellbeing office are working nonstop to guarantee the security of local people. All dams of Pune, Satara Sangli and Kolhapur are 100 percent full. All riverside towns of Pune locale have been alarmed.

"Repositories in these regions are full. In the event that we get more precipitation, at that point we have no choice however to discharge water in waterways," said Mhaiskar. About 4 lakh cusecs of water was discharged from the Almatti dam, he included. In the event that the progression of water builds, at that point a flood-like circumstance will be made in Raichur. "We are in contact with the experts," he included.

Of the 16 passings, four were recorded in Pune, seven in Satara, two each in Sangli and Kolhapur, and one in Solapur.

A few trucks were stuck on a national parkway that associates the monetary capital Mumbai to data and innovation center Bangalore, on the grounds that the street was submerged in few spots, Mhaiskar said. With unending downpours making a flood-like circumstance in the state, four National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) groups from Goa on Wednesday arrived at Maharashtra to do help and safeguard tasks, the Chief Minister Office (CMO) said.

"14 Navy groups from Western Naval Command have additionally come to. Salvage groups from Pune and Mumbai have arrived at Kolhapur and five additional groups are planning to get sent," the CMO said.

A sum of 1000 armed force officials have likewise been sent to complete salvage activities. "A sum of 16 Columns and 12 Engineer Task Forces containing just about 1000 Army faculty have been utilized in Belgaum, Bagalkot and Raichur region of Karnataka and Raigad, Kohlapur and Sangli locale of Maharashtra to do flood alleviation activities," expressed an official discharge from resistance PRO.

The salvage activity by Army staff is directly in progress in the towns of Birwadi and Asankoli in Raigad District, Mouje Digraj, Haripur and Nandre town of Sangli and Kohlapur regions.

In the interim, 89 pontoons were additionally sent to help individuals. Aside from this, Navy and beach front gatekeeper groups are additionally helping in the salvage activity

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