IMD issues red alert warning for Gujarat, several villages cut off after heavy rain in Saurashtra

The India Meteorological Department on Wednesday issued a red alert in Gujarat and said that parts of the state will receive “heavy to extremely heavy rainfall” in the next two to three days, IANS reported. The state has been battered by heavy rainfall since Monday.

The weather department has predicted that isolated places in Junagadh district will receive “heavy to very heavy rain” and some parts may receive “extremely heavy rain”.

Isolated places in the districts of Surat, Dangs, Navsari, Valsad and Tapi in south Gujarat, along with the Union Territories of Daman, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, are likely to receive “heavy to very heavy rain” on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, according to the weather department.

Fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls very likely over Gujarat State, West Madhya Pradesh , East UP and East Rajasthan during 15th-17th; over East MP, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand on 15th and reduction thereafter. pic.twitter.com/rFPUAI3iW1

— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) September 15, 2021

The National Disaster Response Force has deployed 15 teams in Gujarat in anticipation of more rainfall, according to IANS. Out of these, two teams each are stationed in Jamnagar and Rajkot districts. One team each has been deployed in Valsad, Surat, Navsari, Gir-Somnath, Amreli,…

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