Amid heavy rain and flood, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday directed the administration, police, SDRF and local bodies to be vigilant and focus on rescue and relief works.
Mr Shah reached out to the Chief Ministers and had separate telephonic conversations to assess the flood situation, as well as the surge in water level due to heavy rainfall.
The flood in Assam has so far claimed 93 lives, as two people died in Karimganj district in the last 24 hours, said the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).
Most of the roads leading to the city were flooded with water. There was up to five-foot deep water on the Lucknow-Delhi Highway on Friday morning due to which traffic remained paralyzed for the second day today.
The State Disaster Management Department reports that landslips triggered by incessant rains have severely disrupted several districts, isolating communities and blocking roads, which has hampered relief efforts and access to essential services.
Under the terms of the IMF deal all provincial governments were required to generate a fiscal surplus, which they had committed to do, in writing.
The Pakistan government, former Prime Minister Imran Khan, as also army chief General Bajwa have independently appealed for aid.
Should we build embankments so close to rivers that they do not have the space needed to deposit silt and replenish ponds or recharge groundwater?
This year’s still unfolding disaster is a warning about what lies ahead, as the Himalayan glaciers melt and extreme weather events become the norm.
Kabul River is still at a very high flood level at Nowshera as the water has crossed 300,000 cusecs and this is why residents in some areas have not been allowed to come back to their homes," she said in a statement cited by The Express Tribune.
