Heavy rains claimed 69 lives and more than one lakh people had to be evacuated following floods triggered by heavy rains in Marathwada.
Vaishali Balajiwale/ Jaideep Hardikar/Sumit Khanna
Nashik/ Nagpur/Surat: Heavy rains claimed 69 lives and more than one lakh people had to be evacuated following floods triggered by heavy rains in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra on Monday.
Authorities alerted 178 villages on the banks of Godavari River which crossedthe danger mark.
So far, 69 persons have been killed in rain-related incidents and help of Army, Navy and Air Force personnel was taken to evacuate 1.05 lakh people in 79 flood-affected tehsils in the state.
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who had to cut short his proposed tour of the flood-affected areas due to bad weather, told reporters at Aurangabad on Monday evening that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to him and assured all Central assistance to combat the flood situation.
The flood-affected districts in the state include Nanded, Hingoli, Jalna and Parbhani in Marathwada region; Buldhana, Yavatmal, Washim and Akola in Amravati division; Chandrapur and Gadchiroli in Nagpur division and Jalgaon in Nashik revenue
division.
Floods inundated most parts of South and Central Gujarat on Monday with Tapti and Narmada flowing well above the danger mark.
Water in excess of 16 lakh cusecs was released from Narmada and Ukai Dam owing to “heavy rains in the catchment areas of MP and Maharashtra”.
Heavy rains lashed several parts of western Madhya Pradesh on Sunday causing water level to rise menacingly in rivers and forcing people in low-lying areas to move to higher grounds in Dhar, Jhabua and Khargone districts.
In Andhra Pradesh, as many as 94 people have been killed in the past five days even as the overall flood situation eased on Monday in the absence of heavy rains.
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