- As per a statement by the Gujarat CM PRO, CM Bhupendra Patel provided full details to the Prime Minister about the heavy rains the state has witnessed in the last 48 hours, especially in the south and central Gujarat regions
NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, JULY 11
Several parts of districts in south and central Gujarat, including Ahmedabad, received very heavy rainfall over the last 24 hours, resulting in a flood-like situation in various low-lying areas from where over 6,000 people were shifted to safer places, officials said on Monday.
વડાપ્રધાનશ્રી નરેન્દ્ર મોદીએ મુખ્યમંત્રીશ્રી ભૂપેન્દ્ર પટેલ સાથે ટેલિફોનિક વાતચીત કરી ગુજરાતમાં વ્યાપક અને ભારે વરસાદથી સર્જાયેલી વિકટ પરિસ્થિતી અંગેની વિગતો મેળવીને વરસાદી સ્થિતીને પહોચી વળવા NDRF સહિતની તમામ જરૂરી મદદ માટે કેન્દ્ર સરકાર વરસાદ અસરગ્રસ્તોની પડખે હોવાની ખાતરી આપી.
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) July 11, 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and took details of the situation. He assured Patel of all possible help from the central government, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said in a statement.
આવતીકાલે ૧૨/૭/૨૨ જિલ્લાના તમામ શાળા, આંગણવાડી, કોલેજો બંધ રહેશે. તમામ આચાર્યશ્રીઓએ જે શાળાઓએ ઓનલાઈન શિક્ષણ આપી શકે તેમ છે, તે શાળાઓએ ઓનલાઈન શિક્ષણ આપી શકાશે, ઓફ લાઇન શિક્ષણ કાર્ય બંધ રહેશે.@DDO_VALSAD @SEOC_Gujarat @pkumarias @CMOGuj pic.twitter.com/M9vnMoDkuG
— Collector Valsad (@collectorvalsad) July 11, 2022
Due to the widespread rains, 388 roads, including state highways and panchayat roads, were closed. Efforts were on to open them for the traffic. Thirteen teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and 16 of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have been deployed to carry out rescue operations, a government release said.
Team health is visiting homes of pregnant ladies in villages.They are being shifted to nearest health centres/other safe places. Please call on 02632-253381 if you need any health related assistance.@pkumarias @GujHFWDept @collectorvalsad @InfoGujarat @InfoValsadGoG @NHMGujarat pic.twitter.com/tgnmWduTsI
— DDO Valsad (@DDO_VALSAD) July 11, 2022
Thirteen dams have been put on ’high alert’ and eight on ’alert’ as their water level rose due to the heavy showers, it said.
Teams of R&B Panchayat led by Executive Engineer in field to avoid any untoward incident on roads. 81 roads of Panchayat have been closed for public movement so far.@pkumarias@collectorvalsad @InfoGujarat @InfoValsadGoG pic.twitter.com/sNXbLCJ0WG
— DDO Valsad (@DDO_VALSAD) July 11, 2022
The IMD has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy showers during the next five days in south Gujarat, and heavy downpour in central parts of the state and Saurashtra. Ahmedabad city received 219 mm downpour on Sunday night, causing water-logging in many residential areas and flooding on underpasses and roads. Several areas in the city inundated, resulting in hardships for commuters. Schools and colleges in the city were closed on Monday.
માંડવી તાલુકામાં આવેલ કાકરાપાર વીયરમાંથી આશરે ૬૦, ૦૦૦ ક્યૂસેક પાણી છોડવામાં આવેલ હોય, હરીપુરા – કોસાડી કોઝવે બંધ કરવામાં આવેલ છે. વૈકલ્પિક ૨સ્તા તરીકે બારડોલી – માંડવી મુખ્ય રસ્તાથી જઈ શકાશે. @CMOGuj @pkumarias
— Collector Surat (@collectorsurat) July 11, 2022
Narmada and Chhota Udepur districts in central Gujarat, and Surat, Tapi and Valsad in south Gujarat have been badly affected due to the heavy downpour. In Valsad district, a helicopter was used to rescue around 16 people from a village where they were stranded due to flooding in the Auranga river, revenue official Madhavi Mistry said
Nearly 1,000 people were shifted to safer places from various rain-hit areas in Valsad and 15 rescued, five of them from an urban area, she said. In Chhota Udepur district, Bodeli taluka recieved 549 mm rainfall and Kwant taluka 432 mm rainfall in the 24-hour period till 6 am on Monday, leading to water entering many areas. The Uchh and Heran rivers in the district were in spate, and caused flooding in low-lying areas. A total of 5,245 people were evacuated and more than 350 rescued, an official said. In Bodeli town, river waters entered many residential areas.
The movement of four passenger trains and an express train was affected after tracks between Chandod and Ekta Nagar sections were washed away, a Western Railway official said. Panchmahal, Dang, Navsari, Valsad, Tapi and Kheda districts were also affected by heavy rains, an official from the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) said.
In all, 218 out of 251 talukas in Gujarat received rainfall in the 24-hour period till 6 am on Monday, it said. The state has so far received 36 per cent of its average annual rainfall, as per the data shared by the SEOC.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy showers during the next five days in south Gujarat’s Dang, Navsari and Valsad districts. Several other districts of south and central Gujarat and Saurashtra are also likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall during the period, the IMD said.
