In the fresh spell of rains, it rained throughout the Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. Normal life was disrupted in Bhopal, Sagar and Hoshangabad divisions after it rains incessantly for the past 24 hours.
According to Met officials, in past 24 hours, maximum rain of 152.4 mm was reported in Sagar, 101.6 mm in Pachmarhi and 25.4 mm in Bhopal. Besides, Narsinghpur, Shajapur, Gwalior, Hoshangabad, Tikamgarh, Datia, Sheopur, Mandla, Guna, Rajgarh, Umaria, Satna, Rewa and other districts also registered good rains.
The Meteorology department has issued warning of heavy rains in all the divisions of the State in next 24 hours. In this regard, the State government has issued Collectors in all the districts to take all possible precautionary measures. Meteorology officials claim that this spell of rains is likely to continue in coming 2-3 days.
Since, it rained heavily in Sagar in past 24 hours, the district administration had on Tuesday declared holiday in the schools. With the incessant heavy rains, Sagar was disconnected with rural areas. With the incessant rains, almost all the rivers and nullahs that swelled yesterday, were subsided in the morning only for few hours. The roads transport to Sagar from Bhopal, Bina and Jabalpur were restored in the morning. Similarly, the rains disrupted the road transport to Tikamgarh from Chhatarpur, Sagar, lalitpur and Jhansi.
In Hoshangabad district, 11 sluice valves of Tava dam were opened upto three feet. At Sethani ghat on Narmada River, the river was flowing at 960.6 feet, which is around four feet below danger mark. On the Jabalpur-Narsinghpur road, Narmada River was flowing five feet above the Jhansighat bridge and thus a long queue was vehicles on both sides of the roads were witnessed.