Rain lashes major parts of Gujarat, Narmada dam receives fresh inflow

Ahmedabad, 16 July, 2014

So far as monsoon 2014 is concerned, there are some good news finally at Gujarat front.

After a delay of about a month, lately monsoon has set in over Gujarat with formation of a favorable system for rain. This is the observation Indian Meteorological Department(IMD) which has forcasted heavy rains in the next 24 hours.

On Wednesday, Gujarat Veraval, Malia Hatina, Mendarda, Vanthli, Visavdar, Keshod, Savarkundla, Lathi, Liliya, Babra, Rajula, Bhavnagar, Palitana, Gondal, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Porbandar received moderate to heavy rain. With 4 inch rain, Veraval witnessed water logging on roads.

Vrajmi and Meghal rivers were flooding, while a bridge over Malan river suffered breakdown following heavy rain.

In south Gujarat, Valsad, Umargam, Pardi and Kaprada continued to receive good rain throughout the night and even during day.

Due to heavy rain in Gandevi belt, approach of river bridge over river Ambika suffered damage.

Good thing about shower on Wednesday was that it also impacted water starved north Gujarat and central Gujarat regions including Banaskantha and Patan.

Palanpur’s Chitrasani underpass again suffered problem of water logging following good rain.

Showers are also reported in parts of Kutch.

Another good news about today’s shower was that, Narmada dam has started receiving fresh inflow. It is not in substantial measurement so far, but even slightest inflow is good news at this juncture. The level of water at Narmada dam touched 114.15 meter.

The city of Ahmedabad continued to remain dry even when rest of the parts of Gujarat have witnessed some rains. Some parts of city including University, Drive In, Vijay Char rasta etc received rain in the evening but many other areas remained dry.