Rain continues:Narmada dam level up, water released from Kadana dam

Ahmedabad, 4 July 2013

The excellent rain that started late on Wednesday evening is continuing on Thursday morning too mainly in central, east and Amdavad parts of Gujarat. Water level at Narmada dam has gone up and the latest level is 114.78 meter at noon on Thursday. Exactly before 24 hours it was 113.96 meter. 10,000 cusec is being released from Kadana dam in the wake of inflow of water in Mahi. Later in the day further 40,000 cusec water will be released. 22 low lying villages of Thasra belt in Kheda district are alerted following release of water. Water level at Kadana is 409 presently, danger mark is 419.

The crucial part of the story is that the tribal areas have received significant rain in this round. In last round, while Saurashtra received maximum rain, tribal areas stayed dry. In current round, tribal areas are served by Lord Indra.

At 8.00 am on Thursday, Gujarat’s total rain of this monsoon was at 27.50% which is not bad at this point. The highest rain has been experienced in Porbandar district (57.88%) while lowest has been in Dangs(13.79%).