Flood-scarred Maharashtra’s toll zooms to 149; 229,000 evacuated
The death toll in flood-ravaged Maharashtra shot up from 112 to 149 on Sunday whereas yet any other 64 are mute lacking, the Yelp Catastrophe Management Authority said.
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Maharashtra | monsoons | Floods in India
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Final Up thus a long way at July 25, 2021 21: 18 IST
The death toll in flood-ravaged Maharashtra shot up from 112 to 149 on Sunday whereas yet any other 64 are mute lacking, the Yelp Catastrophe Management Authority said.
In what’s billed as the supreme flood rescue operations within the enlighten in a protracted time, over 2.29 lakh of us had been evacuated to safer areas after their homes had been submerged in flood waters, in some locations up to 20 toes excessive.
As many as 50 of us had been injured and are present process medicines at diverse hospitals in Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Sangli, Satara, and Kolhapur.
With rains taking a respite on Sunday, the flood-ravaged districts presented a grim scenario with rankings of of us grappling to rebuild their lives.
Continuing his tour of the ravaged areas in coastal Konkan for the 2d day, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray visited badly-affected towns indulge in Chiplun and Khed in Ratnagiri.
Union MSME Minister Narayan Rane, accompanied by Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s Leaders of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis (Assembly) and Pravin Darekar (Council) also toured one of the most regions indulge in Taliye village in Raigad and Chiplun in Ratnagiri.
He assured to put up his tour reveal to High Minister Narendra Modi and said both the Centre and enlighten authorities will unitedly work to rehabilitate the flood-victims.
Later, he launched a scathing attack on the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities, accusing it for diverse lapses and delays by the administration in speeding help to the affected populace.
Per the SDMA, the towns of Chiplun and Khed in Ratnagiri district had been fully inundated and decrease off as the bridge on River Vashishti used to be washed away on Friday.
As unprecedented rains jacked up the water levels to extra than 15-20 toes, hundreds of of us, stranded on rooftops or upper ground of their properties, had been viewed screaming for help.
Teams of the Indian Military, Navy, Air Power, Flee Guard, NDRF, and SDRF are mute deployed in diverse areas, rescuing of us, and offering food or medication and other wait on materials to the victims, said the SDMA.
Of us in a whole lot of towns and villages voiced their rage at the administration for no longer speeding them food, water, garments, medicines, cleaning materials and other items of each day use to help them re-delivery their lives from scratch.
When Thackeray, ministers and officers went to the affected, they had been almost mobbed by determined of us disturbing help, recounted tragic tales of how they survived simplest within the garments they wore and had lost fully all the pieces within the flood fury.
Over a dozen hillslides and landslips had been reported in diverse districts which buried rankings and a lot of extra reported lacking, whereas rankings of roads within the regions are mute closed for vehicular motion.
The enlighten authorities has sanctioned Rs 2 crore each for Raigad and Ratnagiri for relief operations and Rs 50 lakh for the other affected regions the put water levels fill started receding and cleaning operations had been taken up.
“The flood relief columns in coordination with the civil administration at the present time evacuated stranded locals from the flood affected areas of Kolhapur and Sangli district. Visuals of evacuation in Sangli district,” tweets PRO Defence Pune
(Video source: PRO Defence Pune) pic.twitter.com/KFtDHkm2Ih
— ANI (@ANI) July 25, 2021
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