NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, SEP 13
Heavy rains battered parts of Gujarat’s Saurashtra region on Monday, leading to the deaths of three people in Rajkot and Jamnagar as rivers overflowed and low-lying areas got flooded, prompting the authorities to issue alerts and deploy NDRF and SRDF teams for evacuation and relief.
On the first day after assuming charge of CM, Shri @Bhupendrapbjp held a high level meeting to review the situation created due to heavy rains in Saurashtra, especially in Jamnagar and Rajkot districts and instructed concerned authorities for immediate rescue & relief operations. pic.twitter.com/p0GBD15FEk
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) September 13, 2021
Indian Air Force helicopters were pressed into service in Jamnagar and Rajkot to airlift people, district authorities said.
According to Gujarat Defence PRO Manish, total two V5 and 4 chetak helicopters were pressed into relief and rescue mission in Jamnagar. 24 were rescued till evening. At some places flood-hit people refused to board the copters. Weather is bad. Effort will continue tomorrow also.
Lodhika taluka in Rajkot received 435 millimetres of rainfall in a 10-hour period since 6am on Monday, while Visavadar taluka in Junagadh got 364 mm, Kalavad in Jamnagar 348 mm, Rajkot taluka 305 mm, Dhoraji in Rajkot 202 mm, Kotdasangani in Rajkot 190 mm, Gondal in Rajkot 162 mm, State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) officials said.
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इलाके में बाढ़ से हालात बिगड़े हुए है।@pkumarias @CollectorJamngr @IAF_MCC @DefencePRO_Guj pic.twitter.com/Rc2jMh9CN0— Janak Dave (@dave_janak) September 13, 2021
A woman and two men drowned after their cars were washed away by the intensity of rains in two separate incidents in Kalavad in Rajkot and Jam Jodhpur in Jamnagar districts, respectively, officials said.
જામનગર જિલ્લામાં અતિભારે વરસાદને કારણે અસર પામેલા 3 ગામોના અને પાણીમાં ફસાયેલા તમામ લોકોને તાત્કાલિક મદદ તેમજ સહાય પહોંચાડી સલામત સ્થળે ખસેડવા અને એર લિફ્ટની વ્યવસ્થા કરવા જીલ્લા વહીવટી તંત્ર સાથે વાત કરીને સંબંધિત સૂચનાઓ આપી છે.
— Bhupendra Patel (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Bhupendrapbjp) September 13, 2021
Several teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were rushed to Rajkot, Junagadh and Jamnagar, they said.
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— 6 NDRF VADODARA (@6NDRFVADODARA) September 13, 2021
Around 20 people were airlifted by Indian Air Force helicopters from various villages in Jamnagar district, and 30 others rescued as well, Collector Sourabh Pardhi said, while Rajkot Collector Arun Mahesh Babu informed that IAF choppers were preparing to airlift 22 people from three different villages in his district.
“So far we have relocated a total 1,155 people to safe places in the district, and the process continues. A team of the NDRF from Bhatinda in Punjab and two teams of SDRF from Banaskantha and Vadodara will be here to help in rescue operations,” Babu said.
Pardhi said two teams of the NDRF and one of SDRF were carrying out rescue operations in affected areas in Jamnagar.
An SEOC official said a part of the national highway between Jamnagar and Kalavad was blocked due to flooding, while six state highways in Jamnagar, Amreli and Porbandar districts and 58 village roads in different districts were similarly affected.
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department, during the day, forecast widespread rainfall across Gujarat till Wednesday, including “heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy rainfall in a few places in the districts of Saurashtra during the next four days”.
Parts of south Gujarat and other districts may also receive heavy to very heavy rainfall during this period, the IMD added.
