Ranchi: Normal life is completely thrown from equipment in many parts of the country because of very heavy rainfall in several districts for the past 24 hours.
Life came to traffic jams in Dhanbad who recorded the highest 309mm rainfall in the last 36 hours.
Water entering the mine, lowland area, Powerlines snarled it to produce darkness and total interference in cellular communication.
Although there were no reported accidents, BCCL closed all mining activities and evacuated labor from the mine as a precautionary measure.
Director, technical, BCCL, Goswami Chanchal said they had taken all the necessary precautions.
“As water it starts flowing into the lowlands, including open mines, we evaluate all machines and labor, even from underground to prevent loss of life and property,” Goswami said.
Mining activities in the BCC Mine cannot be continued unless the water level is the income.
Rainfall is very heavy between 135.5mm and 130.5mm each recorded in Giridih and Deoghar districts that paralyze normal life.
Apart from the standby issued by IMD, people cannot prevent damage to the house of Kuchcha and overhead powerlines because of removing trees and branches that fall under high-speed winds.
Head, Ranchi IMD, Abhishek Anand, said the low pressure area marked well seen on the Bengal-Jharkhand border on Wednesday night shifted to the east to cover Jharkhand and lay on the North Jharkhand and neighboring Bihar on Thursday around 7.6 km in over sea level.
“Under the impact of the low pressure area which is well marked, some parts of the country receive very heavy rainfall, with a maximum rain 309mm reported from Putki in Dhanbad followed by Girroid and Deoghar.
Very heavy rainfall is also reported from Bokaro while all regencies receive Mild to moderate rainfall, “he said.
The system that moves towards Bihar is expected to cause very heavy rainfall in North Jharkhand for the next 24 hours with a very heavy falling opportunity in some isolated places.
It is likely to shift to the Himalayan Foothills, North Bihar and Sikkim in the next four to five days.
“Palamu, Chatra, coderma and hazaribag have been categorized in the red zone with a prediction of very heavy rainfall while Lahtarhar, Lohardaga, Giridih and Deoghar are expected to receive very heavy rainfall until 8:30 a.m.
on Friday.
Rainfall activities will decrease on During the day on Friday, although the North Jharkhand district is still expected to receive heavy rainfall, “said Bulletin IMD.
Rainfall under the low pressure impact that was well marked which followed the rain under the impact of Typhoon Gullab last week had managed to mitigate seasonal shortages.
As on Thursday – the last day of the rainy season -jharkhand recorded rainfall of 1.043.4mm as against the normal season of 1,054.7mm indicating 1% negative departure.
During the past two weeks, the state has received 59mm rainfall which is 24% higher than usual.
Of the 24 districts, 16 has received normal rain, three in the excess category while five have recorded less rainfall.
(With input from Anil Asutosh in Dhanbad)
Heavy rains placing brakes on mining in Dhanbad, paralyzing life in the remaining Jharkhand
