Heavy rain warning on in Gujarat, Rupani says system equipped to deal with situation

Gandhinagar/Surat/Palanpur: Amid flood like situation at some places in North Gujarat and Saurashtra, moderate to heavy rain occurred at some place today as well even as met department has predicted heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in the next 24 hours as well.

Meanwhile Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today said in Surat that the disaster management system in the state was well equipped and capable of dealing with rain caused situations.

He also said that a survey in the very heavy rain affected areas would be conducted to assess the tune of loss for adequate compensation.

Rain today also took place at many places including Valsad, Gandhinagar, Idar, Deesa, Ahmedabad, Surendranagar. In the last 24 hours 236 talukas of all the 33 districts received some amount of rain with Kodinar in Gir-somnath getting maximum of 350mm. Siddhpur in Patan received 333 mm, Tankara in Morbi 280 mm and Diyodar in Banaskantha 218mm.

7 people died in three separate incidents of drowning. Two people died owing to drowning in surged Tapi river in Vagheya under Bardoli taluka of Surat district while three others drowned in a pond in rain affected Delwada area of Banaskantha district. Two children died owing to drowning in a check dam in Khijadia village under Kuwadava police station of Rajkot district.

The rail tracks damaged owing to washing away of soil beneath them between Palanpur and Mahesana stations were repaired and rail traffic resumed on this section at around 1113 am today after 13 hours of disruption. 4 trains were cancelled and 14 diverted owing to it. Notably roads have also been damaged at several places across North Guajrat and Saurashtra owing to very heavy rain in last 24 hours disrupting the road traffic as well. Many villages have turned in to islands of sorts owing to water logging around them. Dams are overflowing owing to surge in inflow of water during rains. Incidents of Cars and other vehicles getting trapped in flood at various places have also occurred, however, fortunately no loss of life has taken place. At some places people have shifted to safer places owing to entering of water in the residential areas.

Temperatures across Gujarat remained moderate with no place seeing in excess of 36°C. Ahmedabad witnessed a maximum of 28.9°C which was 6.6°C below normal.

Almost whole of North Gujarat, notorious for its prolonged summers, was witnessing a pleasant weather with steep decline in temperatures. However, water logging and flood has thrown life out of gear.

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