83 human deaths due to rains in Gujarat so far this year: Government

Gandhinagar: The red alert for very heavy rains is still prevail ant in Junagadh, Gir Somnath, Dang, Valsad and Navsari districts of Gujarat due to the forecast of heavy to very heavy rain, informed Disaster Management minister Rajendra Trivedi to the media from SEOC Gandhinagar today at around noon.

Trivedi said – ‘CM Bhupendra Patel had a day ago visited Bodeli in Chhota Udepur after an aerial inspection of flood hit areas. The CM also met affected people staying in a shelter home at Navsari. He instructed administration to pay cashdoles after survey in affected regions on an urgent basis.’

Trivedi further informed that 21 water bodies in the state are full above 100 percent capacity. He added that 27 water bodies are 50 to 70 percent full, 51 water bodies are 25 to 50 percent full and 77 water bodies are less than 25 percent full. Sardar Sarovar has 48 percent water of its storage capacity. The water bodies of the state are 46.25 percent full out of the total storage capacity.

He added that 18 NDRF platoons and 21 SDRF teams are deployed in affected districts. Two teams of NDRF and 5 teams of SDRF are kept reserved. Total 83 human deaths have been reported so far. Total 14 human deaths were reported within the last 24 hours which includes 2 deaths due to falling of trees, 2 due to lightning strike, 9 due to drowning in water flow.

The electricity supply was stopped in 769 villages out of over 18 thousand villages, which has been resumed in all the villages. He added that 51 state highways, 537 routes including 483 panchayat routes are closed for vehicle transport for safety measures. National Highway 41 passing from Kutch, Navsari National Highway-64 and National Highway passing from Dang are closed, which will be resumed soon.

He added that 31035 people have been transferred to safe places so far, out of which 21094 are in shelter homes and 9848 returned to their homes. He added that routes to 138 villages were closed out of 14610 ST bus routes. Total 14 out of them are resumed and 124 will be resumed till evening today. DeshGujarat