Gujarat completes 96.98% rain of average monsoon season

Gandhinagar: Gujarat has completed 96.98% of average monsoon seasonal rainfall as on 8.00 am today.

Kutch region has completed 93.16% average monsoon rain while North Gujarat 135.48%, East-Central Gujarat 78.22%, Saurashtra 95.38% and South Gujarat 83.39%.

In last 24 hours, Vapi taluka in Valsad received more than 15 inch rain, Umargam 7 inch, Bhavnagar 5.5 inch, Pardi 4.80 inch.

Extremely heavy rainfall in Vapi throws life out of gear

Vapi: Life was thrown completely out of gear during the extremely heavy rainfall of 391 mm (over 15 inches) in Vapi taluka of Valsad district in Gujarat where last night the NDRF team was swung in to action and it rescued five people.

Train services on Mumbai-Surat mainline were also disrupted as both the up and down line tracks were submerged near Udwada.

The water receded at around 11 pm last night after which the train services were somehow resumed. The track was completely closed for operation from 9 to 11 pm. Several long distance trains ran late owing to it.

Collector Vapi C R Kharsan today said that the water was receding from many of the water logged areas after the stopping of rain. He said that motors were being used to drain out water from underpasses and other water logged areas in Vapi.

He said that looking at the heavy rain warning for the next 3 days, the system was kept in a state of alert.

Umergam in Valsad has seen 186 mm in last 24 hours.

Notably 205 talukas of 32 of the total 33 districts had seen rain in last 24 hours taking the total monsoon rain figure for the state to 96.98%.

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