Several parts of south and central Gujarat, including Ahmedabad, received continuous heavy rainfall over the last 24 hours, resulting in a flood like situations in various low-lying areas.
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The Auranga river overflowed and a flood like situation was seen in low-lying areas in the Valsad district of Gujarat due to heavy rainfall. Parts of Gujarat and Ahmedabad were flooded and over 6,000 people have been evacuated from several low-lying areas in the affected districts as per reported on Monday by the Gujarat Disaster Management Minister Rajendra Trivedi.
Several roads and bridges have been damaged. 13 dams have been put on ‘high alert’ and 8 on ‘alert’ as their water level rose due to the heavy showers.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy showers during the next five days in south Gujarat, and heavy downpour in central parts of the state and Saurashtra.
Ahmedabad city received 219 mm downpour on Sunday night and caused water-logging in many residential areas and flooding on underpasses and roads. Several areas in the city submerged resulting hardships for the people in that area. Narmada and Chhota Udepur districts in central Gujarat, and Surat, Tapi and Valsad in south Gujarat have been badly affected due to this continuous heavy rainfall and flood like situations.
Schools and colleges in the city remained closed on Monday.
In all, 218 out of 251 talukas in Gujarat received rainfall in the 24-hour period till 6 am on Monday, it said.
The state has so far received 36 per cent of its average annual rainfall, as per the data shared by the SEOC.
