Excellent rains in north Gujarat areas make farmers happy

Ahmedabad, 3 September 2014

North Gujarat is in cheerful mood today as there has been excellent rain across the region which usually witnesses shortage of rain in most years. Bhabhar, Tharad, Palanpur, Patan, Siddhpur are among the areas that have witnessed good rain. Low lying areas of the city of Palanpur which is headquarters of Banaskantha district are experiencing water logging since Wednesday morning. Siddhpur taluka has experienced over 7 inch rain during yesterday night. Deesa has experienced over 10 inch rain. Five villages were disconnected due to water logging on connecting roads. Arvalli and Sabarkantha are other districts where excellent rainfall has been experienced during last 24 hours. Siddhpur taluka’s Thakrasan village’s Moini river is flooding. 18,000 cusec water from Harnav river has been released following which 11 villages in downstream area alerted. They are Antarsuba, Abhapur, Bandhana, Matali, Kundla, Khodasan, Ladiwada, Antri, Okhla Dungri, Parsoda and Rajpur. A flood protection wall in Rajpur has collapsed following which there’s extra alert announced here.