Rivers and rivulets in Jhabua and Alirajpur districts of Madhya Pradesh are in a spate due to heavy rainfall since last night, with normal life thrown out of gear and several villages being marooned.
Besides, at least six persons have died due to heavy rainfall in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh, a senior official said.
Downpours caused flood in Anas, Sunar, Mahi, Pampavati, Padmavati, Nauganva and other rivers. As the gates of Mahi Sagar Dam were opened, water gushed into villages and homes. Over a dozen villages were marooned.
Water was seen flowing above the Bahadur Sagar Dam and almost two feets above road. According to the land Records Office, Jhabua and Alirajpur received 90-100 mm rainfall in just 12 hours. Showers were continuing in the region.
Similarly, water entered into 5-6 slums at Hoshangabad, which was lashed by heavy rains last night. Water reached up to 2-3 feet in the Public Works Department’s office also.
The Hoshangabad district administration has announced a holiday in schools on Monday in view of the rains. Although the rain halted in the morning, water have filled several rooms. Palakmati River was in a spate disrupting movement on road, leading to Pachmarhi.
The administration in Khandwa district has sounded a high alert in the district and had declared a holiday on Monday in all the Government and private schools, he said. “Six people lost their lives due to heavy rains in Khandwa district, while one person is still missing,” Khandwa Collector MK Agrawal told reporters.
Three people were swept away in an overflowing drain near Manjhagarh village while they tried to cross it on a motorcycle.
later, bodies of two of them were found and identified as Premu and Sadiq, while a search is on to trace the third missing person named Ashish.
Similarly, two persons were swept away in the waters on the Khandwa-Moondi road near Sinhada village, the collector said, adding that efforts are on to identify them. Two others identified as Vicky and Abhishek were also killed because of heavy rains, at their residence in Adarsh
Nagar area. Age of these victims is yet to be ascertained, though it is known that all of them are adults, the official said.
Meanwhile, heavy rains severely affected normal life in Khandwa town and the railway track between Khandwa and Itarsi was flooded with water affecting rail traffic on the busy route, he said.
Mercury drops after rains
Heavy rains which lashed the city on Sunday night brought down the day and night temperatures by few notches. Besides, it rained only in the evening on Monday after the daylong phenomenon of hide and seek between clouds and the Sun.
Met officials claimed that the city would receive heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours and the pattern would continue for the next 3-4 days. City received around 26.8 mm of rainfall and due to the good amount of rainfall day temperature was recorded at 31.3 degree Celsius while the night temperature was recorded at 24.4 degree Celsius. System over Odisha and Chhattisgarh has moved over South West MP and adjoining areas of Maharashtra.
In Northern region of the state many places would receive rainfall while most of the placed in South-West MP would receive good rainfall told the Met officials.
Met officials told that the state is having a rainfall deficit of around 16 percent and there are good possibilities that the deficit of the rainfall would be fulfilled in the remaining 20 days of rainfall season. Heavy to very rains in Bhopal, Hoshangabad and Indore divisions would be witnessed in the next 24 hours.
Jabalpur and Ujjain divisions would receive heavy rains in the next 24 hours.
Good moisture incursion from Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea would continue to induce good rainfall across the state and state capital. In the past 24 hours Khandwa received 3.7 cm of rainfall and Maheshwar received 3.4 cm of rainfall which were the regions with the highest rainfall in the state. Among the major cities Indore received 9 cm of rainfall till Monday. Heavy rainfall in the city on Sunday brought down the day temperature by few notches. Day temperature was recorded at 28.2 degree Celsius.