Flood threat due to torrential rains in Gujarat, MP and Rajasthan

27-Aug-2024 12:33 PM

New Delhi. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning that Gujarat may receive heavy to very heavy rainfall for the next 2 to 3 days, while torrential rains are already continuing there.

Along with Gujarat, heavy rains are also continuing in some parts of Rajasthan and Central Maharashtra.

As a result, there is a serious threat of floods in Gujarat districts like Balsad and Navsari. Some districts of Rajasthan are also in the grip of floods.

Due to extremely torrential rains in Madhya Pradesh (MP), not only has the life of the people been disrupted but Kharif crops have also been damaged.

The same situation is in other provinces of the western region. Heavy rains occurred in western Madhya Pradesh, Gangetic region of Bengal, coastal Karnataka,

Jharkhand, Konkan and Goa and southern interior Karnataka yesterday, while heavy rains have been predicted in Rajasthan,

central Maharashtra and coastal Karnataka for today. Tomorrow, i.e. on 28th August, there is a possibility of very heavy rains in Gujarat (especially Saurashtra and Kutch divisions), Madhya Maharashtra and coastal Karnataka.

According to the Meteorological Department, there is a danger of floods in many new areas of eastern Rajasthan, western Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.

In fact, torrential rains are also occurring in the areas where the fields are already submerged, due to which the situation is worsening day by day.

It is known that Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan are the top producers of pulses and oilseeds in the country, where cotton and sugarcane along with other Kharif crops are cultivated on a large scale.