Mumbai: When the surface of the water began to rise in Chiplun in the Ratnagiri District last Thursday, the MSRTC bus depot manager, who managed to reach his office was around 4.30 in the morning challenging flooding, facing difficult tasks: to prevent RS 9 Lakh daily income stored there from being destroyed.
With all the flood areas, Ranjeet Rajeshirke realized that only the roof of one of the sinking buses was a safe bet.
He and six members of his team got on the bus around 5:30 a.m.
and stayed there for nine hours holding on to the bag containing cash before NDRF saved them.
“It was scary.
There are a few moments when the surface of the water is so high that the bus starts to vibrate and we worry we can be thrown for a moment.
But we stand firm,” Rajeshirke said.
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When he remembered the horror last Thursday, he said, “Around 4:30 a.m.
last on Thursday I reached a depot in heavy rain and saw the entire flood depot and the surface of the water was hike.
The release of the dam water made the situation worse and even though the rain had paused, Water continues to flow into the submerged depot and bus.
“” There is no other place I can think of because there is a possibility of cash destroyed in flood water.
That’s when I decided to go to the roof of the bus, “he said.