Eight states are under a heavy rain alert today because of a worsening flood situation

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• Jul 14, 2022 | Kabir Chakraborty

Due to the torrential rains, at least 30 reservoirs in Gujarat have reached their 70% capacity. The Met department has issued a red alert, predicting significant rainfall in the south Gujarat and Saurashtra regions through Thursday. Among the regions of the state experiencing significant rains are Rajkot, Gir Somnath, Jamnagar, Bharuch, Kutch, and Navsari.

Digital Desk: Eight states along the
West Coast, Central, and Peninsular India are expected to see heavy to
extremely heavy rainfall today, according to the weather office. Water flowing
beyond the warning level at 22 river sites is expected to make the flooding situation
worse.

Andhra
Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Assam, and Uttar Pradesh
are experiencing flooding. In addition, 31 dams and barrages in the states of
Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar
Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh have inflow forecasts provided for them.

Due
to the continuing heavy rain in Maharashtra, Palghar, Pune, and the
neighbouring Chinchwad will be without classes today. Yesterday, a landslide in
Vasai city, Palghar district, claimed the lives of a father and his daughter.
In the Gondia district, four people were also lost to flooding.

Due to the torrential rains, at least
30 reservoirs in Gujarat have reached their 70% capacity. The Met department
has issued a red alert, predicting significant rainfall in the south Gujarat
and Saurashtra regions through Thursday. Among the regions of the state
experiencing significant rains are Rajkot, Gir Somnath, Jamnagar, Bharuch,
Kutch, and Navsari.

The Narmadapuram division of Madhya
Pradesh has issued a red alert warning of heavy rain for the next 24 hours in
all of its districts. More than 25 districts, including 11 in the Bhopal and
Ujjain divisions, have received an orange alert for heavy to extremely heavy
rainfall. With many rivers in spate, Betul and Harda are the worst hit areas in
the state.

A red alert has been issued in
Telangana due to the Godavari River crossing the flood level mark at the Kaddem
project in the Nirmal district. Due to massive floodwaters, people in 12 villages
downstream were forced to leave. At Bhadrachalam, the river also passed the
third-level danger mark. Experts have described the water outflow in the
Godavari as a "once in 500 years" phenomenon since it is 3 lakh
cusecs per second compared to 5 lakh cusecs per second influx.

In the meantime, torrential rains have
caused rivers to swell and dams in coastal Karnataka and Malnad to fill to the
brim, resembling a flood. There have also been reports of slides. Hampi's
historical landmarks run the risk of being submerged because the Tungabhadra
dam is almost at capacity. According to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, 500
crores will be released promptly to reconstruct the fundamental infrastructure.
State and federal rescue teams are ready to respond, and precautionary measures
have been put in place sixth
day of a flood alert has also been issued for Hogenakkal in the Dharmapuri
district.

According to the India Meteorological
Department, heavy to very heavy rains are expected in nine southern districts
of Odisha. Heavy rain is already falling in the coastal districts, and the
Gajapati district reported a landslide that damaged at least 10 homes.