The flood situation continues to be critical in Sangli and Kolhapur districts prompting authorities to deploy army in Shirol to evacuate 10,000 people.
SANGLI: The flood situation continues to be critical in Sangli and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra prompting authorities to deploy army in Shirol taluka to evacuate 10,000 people to safer places, even as situation has improved in Satara, Solapur and Pune where nine people have died since Saturday, official sources said on Tuesday.
On Monday night around 10,000 people were shifted from flood-hit areas of the district, Collector Praveen Darade said adding that 11 villages continue to remain cut off.
The situation is critical but under control and no casualty has been reported from Kolhapur, he added.
"We have already evacuated 11,000 people from various parts of the district", Darade said. Panchganga river was in spate at Rajaram Bhandara in Kolhapur city, sources said.
In Sangli, over 75,000 people were evacuated following floods in Krishna river. At least four people were killed in Sangli (Pulush taluka-two, Valva taluka-one and Miraj taluka-one) due to floods.
With rains relenting in Satara district, most of the 1148 people, who were evacuated from Patan taluka, have returned home, official sources said.
However, 4,608 people shifted from Karad taluka were still at the relief camps. The Krishna bridge at Karad, which was closed following the floods would be opened this afternoon, they said.
Two women in Satara's Wai taluka and two children in Khatau taluka had died due to floods in the district in the last two days, sources said.
The situation in Pune was also improving with the discharge of water from Khadakwasla dam being reduced, Resident Deputy Collector Suhas Divse said, adding that one death was reported from Baramati taluka.
The local administration has shifted nearly 295 flood-hit families from Pimpri-Chinchwad and 175 families from Pune city since Saturday, following floods in the low-lying areas of the two twin cities.
Meanwhile, the pilgrimage town of Pandarpur in Solapur district and Malshiras taluka were still inundated, Collector Govind Raj said, adding that rains have diminished in the past 24 hours which has helped the administration to carry out relief operations.
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