Incessant rains since Thursday till late night have thrown normal life out of gear here in the coal capital. Besides flood like situation at hundreds of locations in both urban and suburban locations the regular power supply was snapped .
Be it Sindri, Jharia ,Dhanbad or any other location power supply remained disconnected for over 36 to 40 hours since Thursday night . It was restored around 1.30 pm on Saturday at Sindri and around 2 pm in most parts of Dhanbad.
Heavy rains with gusting wind had uprooted several trees as well as damaged electricity poles and transformers at several locations causing power cuts.
The power cuts have adversely affected business as well as works of small post offices here in Dhanbad .Postmaster of one of the post offices said that even the inverter is not working and could not be charged due to non availability of power.
Meanwhile, the Damodar Valley corporation has issued flood warning for.people of West Bengalas it has started discharging huge quantities of water from its Maithon and Panchet reservoirs.
The main reason for releasing the water is heavy rains in the catchment area of the dams and the rivers. It expects huge quantities of water coming into both dams due to continuous rains in the coming days . Local weather station suggests that Dhanbad has received 226 MM of rain in the last two days in Dhanbad and adjoining areas .