
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan performed an aerial survey of areas flooded.
Bhopal:
Torrential rains over the past two days triggered flooding in a number of districts of Madhya Pradesh, together with Hoshangabad, the place the Army and the NDRF have been roped in at this time to rescue individuals from inundated areas, officers stated.
Sehore and Chhindwara districts additionally proceed to be lashed by heavy rains, which despatched water our bodies in these areas into spate, they stated.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan performed an aerial survey of the inundated areas of Hoshangabad and Sehore districts and the hailstorm-hit elements alongside the Narmada river for one-and-a-half hours on Saturday, officers stated.
Hoshangabad acquired 208 mm rainfall within the final 24 hours ending 8.30 am Saturday. In the identical interval, the well-known hill station of Pachmarhi in Hoshangabad district and Chhindwara acquired 228 mm and 142 mm downpour respectively, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated.
Due to flooding, a number of individuals reportedly acquired stranded at totally different locations, particularly in Hoshangbad and Sehore districts.
Hoshangabad divisional commissioner Rajnish Shrivastava stated that the Army has been known as in to assist the district administration to successfully take care of the flood scenario.
“Two teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have already reached and started helping Hoshangabad district administration. The Army is likely to reach shortly, he added. Following heavy rains, the water level of the Narmada river in Hoshangabad district has gone above 978 metres as against the primary danger level of 964 metres. Many areas in Hoshangabad city were flooded with up to six to eight feet of water,” he added.
“The rural areas in the district are also facing a similar situation, which is why we had to call the Army,” he added.
Due to the downpour, sluice gates of a number of dams throughout the state have been opened to launch water, officers stated.
Meanwhile, the IMD issued a purple alert of extraordinarily heavy rainfall with thunderstorm and lightning at remoted locations of Chhindwara, Vidisha, Sehore, Rajgarh and Shajapur districts.
It additionally issued an orange alert warning that very heavy rainfall and thunderstorm with lightning is probably going at remoted locations of 17 districts, together with Bhopal and Indore apart from Hoshangabad division. Its yellow alert stated that heavy rainfall is probably going at just a few locations in 4 districts together with Guna and Shivpuri. The alerts will stay in place until Sunday morning.