Incessant rain in most parts of Chhattisgarh during the past 48 hours has thrown life out of gear in many towns and cities while floods have already started playing havoc in certain parts of the State.
As per reports reaching here from several quarters of the State, a child got swept away and about two dozen residents were stuck in flooding of a nullah in Saraipali.
Water has entered several villages situated on the bank of rivers while road connectivity between many villages and cities also lost in the State particularly in Bastar division.
Following this, the administration alerted the officials concerned to be ready to deal with any untoward situation. The administration also advised the people not to cross bridges/culverts when water is overflowing.
The rain has also disrupted road transport in almost 75 per cent of the road network in the State.
Sources in the State Disaster Management department informed that around 3 lakh cusec water was released from Samoda Dam to Mahanadi. Due to this, water has entered Nisda Samoda and many adjacent villages of Arang.
Due to incessant rains, Minimata Bango dam has filled upto 78.27 per cent of its capacity, Kharenga Bilaspur upto 75.50 per cent, Maniyarai Mungeli upto 79.50 per cent, Paralkot Kanker 73.85 per cent and Shirpani dam Kabirdham upto 91.65 per cent of its capacity.
Besides, Gangrel dam, Dudhava dam and Sondhur dam has respectively filled upto 51 per cent, 34.51 per
cent and 54.85 per cent to its capacity.
In Raipur, incessant rains threw normal life in low-lying localities of the city out of gear as several complaints of water-logging and water-gushing in houses were reported during the last 24 hours.
A number of localities including Samta Colony, Subhash Nagar, Telibandha and Shailendra Nagar also witnessed similar situation.
In absence of having proper arrangements to drain out rain water, many main roads were submerged in knee-deep water further affecting the traffic flow.
The complaints of water-logging washed out tall claims of Raipur Municipal Corporation to make adequate arrangements to deal with the situation.
RMC Speaker, Sanjay Shrivastava along with the officials concerned took stock of Panchsheel Nagar, Gayatri Nagar, Avanti Vihar, Rajatalab and adjacent areas.
Shrivastava instructed the officials concerned to make arrangements to drain out rain water.
According to Met department office here, what started as a drizzle in the cityon Sunday tuned into a heavy downpour by Tuesday morning. More rains are expected in the coming few days.
Continue rains threw the normal life in low-lying localities of the city out of gear as several complaints of water-logging and water gushing into houses were reported during the last 24 hours.
In absence of having proper arrangements to drain out rain water, many main roads submerged in knee-deep water further affecting the traffic flow.
The complaints of water-logging washed away tall claims of Raipur Municipal Corporation to make adequate arrangements to deal with the situation.
RMC Speaker, Sanjay Shrivastava along with the officials concerned took stock of Panchshil Nagar, Gayatri Nagar, Avanti Vihar, Rajatalab and adjacent areas.
Shrivastava instructed the officials concerned to make arrangements to drain out rainwater.
RMC in a tizzy as rain plays havoc
Following the complaints of rainwater gushing in low-lying areas, Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Tuesday shifted over 300 people to safer places as a precautionary measure.
The civic body erected relief camps for providing temporary accommodation to the people hit by flood-like situation in Virbhadra Nagar, Chandi Nagar and Ganga Nagar locality.
The people were given food in the camps. While the heavy rainfall disturbed normal life in many parts of the city, a house, situated in Nayapara area, could not withstand and caved in.
The house was occupied by the family of Radheshyam and Girdhari Yadav. All the members of their family were safely evacuated before the incident occurred. No loss of lives and household items was reported in the incident.
The civic body officials claimed that the house was in rundown condition. The family was shifted in a rented house.
As the news of water gushing in Professor Colony after Maharajbandh and Bhaiya Talab started overflowing, RMC pressed a JCB and labourers for paving a way to drain out the water by cutting a road.
RMC also distributed food packets among all 350 families residing in the locality. Reports of tree felling also came from different areas throughout the day.
RMC pressed JCB machine to remove a tree fell near Mandi Gate in Anupam Nagar, two trees fell in DD Nagar area, a tree fell near Suyash Hospital and a tree fell in Heerapur area for resuming the traffic flow.
RMC Commissioner, Avneesh Kumar Sharan asked the commissioners of all eight zones to frequently visit in their respective areas and ensure all possible help to the people facing rain-related problems.
Meanwhile, the Meteorological department predicted heavy to ‘unusual’ rainfall across Chhattisgarh including Raipur. Following this, the problems related to rains are likely to persist in days to come.
Meanwhile, heavy rain lashed Gariaband throughout the day on Tuesday. As a result of two day heavy rainfall flow of traffic on Raipur-Gariaband main road was totally thrown out of gear as at some places culvers and roads were submerged in water.
Excessive water flowing in Pantora nullah about 8 km from Gaiaband has stopped traffic flow as it was completely submerged in water. long queues of vehicles on both side of the culvert were seen waiting for getting the water level lower. The traffic was disrupted on the route since Monday and buses starting from Gariaband had to be stationed at Baruki village.
Different villages around the district headquarters were also cut-off from the town due to heavy rain. Pairi River flowing through Gariaband had also gathered force. Due to massive flow at Barula Ghat dozens of village have been cut-off from the Gariaband.
The Paragaon, Chikhli, Sahdoul and other nullahs are overflowing which has severed road contacts with nearby villages. Chikli village which is just 3 km from district headquarters has also become island. likewise Nagabuda village has also been separated from rest of the district.
Rain water had entered in girls’ hostel situated in Pantora area and the girls in the hostel had to be shifted to Garaiband. District collector Niranjan Das informed that all the girls are safe. The Sikasar dam in district has also filled till 52 per cent of its capacity. According to reports, the catchment area of dam has received heavy rainfall. Executive Engineer water resource department informed that water from dam is not being released for now. Continuous rain has uprooted electric polls at different spots thereby affecting the electricity supply.