Vadodara: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) announced today that water is being released from the Ajwa and Pratappura reservoirs into the Vishwamitri River, which flows through the city. The VMC, via a social media post at around 7:30 AM today, said, "The water level of the Vishwamitri River is 15 feet, and the gates of the Ajwa and Pratappura dams have been opened. However, this will not bring any major change to the water level of the Vishwamitri River, so the public need not panic."...Read More

Updates: -Two teams of National Disaster Response Force(NDRF) are deployed in Vadodara city. They arrived at the city command and control centre of Vadodara Municipal Corporation(VMC) in the evening. They shall move to the location where they are needed as per the directive. -Holiday is declared in all school students in VMC area on Monday, 30th September due to heavy rains. -IMD has upgraded its bulletin and declared Orange alert for the period of upto 8.30 am on Monday. Earlier it wa...Read More

Vadodara: The city civic body today launched the operation to demolish the illegal encroachment by the Agora Mall near the Vishwamitri River in the city. As part of this operation, the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is razing the three-story clubhouse of Agora Mall, built in a 3,000 square foot area. Six JCB machines are being used in the operation that began today. In the aftermath of the floods that submerged the city of Vadodara in August, the city’s civic body issued notices to 10...Read More

Vadodara: In the aftermath of the floods that submerged the city of Vadodara in August, the city's civic body has issued notices to 10 entities for encroaching on public land. The Vadodara Municipal Corporation has given a 72-hour ultimatum to these entities to give reply to notices, stating that constructions done without leaving the required margin shall be demolished. Encroachments at Smriti Mandir, Maryland Party Plot, and the club house and compound wall of Agora Mall are to be cleared i...Read More

(The artwork above was created during the 2019 floods by the talented young designer Harshshiv Solanki, based in Vadodara) Japan K Pathak The year 2019 flood in Vadodara was a 34.50 ft level flood, a half a ft more than the 34 ft flood witnessed in 2014 monsoon. The city witnessed unprecedental nearly 20 inches rainfall in less than a day period. There was lack of specific alert for this rainfall from the IMD in advance. Extremely heavy rains in the city, coupled with very heavy rainfall of 7....Read More

Vadodara: The Gujarat government has formed a five-member committee to conduct an in-depth field analysis of the causes behind the flooding in Vadodara city. The committee has also been tasked with recommending measures to reduce the risk of future floods in the region. The committee will be led by B N Navalawala, a former advisor to the chief minister and former secretary in the Government of India. Other members include S S Rathore, advisor to the chief minister; M N Rai, engineer from the ...Read More