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.
Couple that with the expected mass migration to urban centres and you can easily see what the near future will hold.
The rescue, relief and rehabilitation in the country continue. According to The News International, the catastrophe has killed around 719,558 livestock.
At the heart of the ideological divide is the question whether sovereignty is absolute in an inter-connected and inter-dependent world.
As millions of Pakistan people ravaged by extreme rain-induced flooding awaited relief on Friday, Quetta and Swat came under the spotlight.
Troops of the Ladakh-based Fire & Fury Corps of the Indian Army saved the family trapped in a car surrounded by gushing water of a nullah near Rezang La War Memorial.
