Thane / Palghar: heavy rain pounding Maharashtra Thane and Palghar adjacent to Mumbai at night and on Thursday morning, which caused puddles and stones to fall in various places, applying train services and officials to say.
The team of the National Disaster Response (NDRF) was issued to save hundreds of people stranded, they said.
Traces of trains at Umbermali Station near Kasara “sink to the platform level” and there is a boulder stone in the Ghat.
“Train services are suspended,” said the district authorities, added that the work to remove large stones was underway.
A bridge in Sappagon in Sahapur Taluka suffered broad damage due to heavy rain, Tehsildar (income officer) Nilima Suryavanshi said, adding that no one was injured and the traffic movement on the bridge was suspended.
The Sagar Modan Dam in Sahapur began to overflow at 3.24 in the morning on Thursday and two gates opened to release water, said the message from the district head office.
Some villages in Sahapur Taluka are based, Suryavanshi said, adding that the local authorities with the help of NDRF saved hundreds of people from those places.
In the village of Bhatsai, which is located on the hill, people who are stranded cannot come out and shift to school in the area, he said.
In Vashind near Sahapur, the flood water entered the housing complex and his residents shifted to Zilla Parishad’s school with the help of NDRF, the official said.
In Cherpoli, some people who were stranded were saved with the help of the ship, he said.
In Bhiwandi Taluka from Thane, a number of people stranded in the areas recorded by water from Padha, Kawad, Ganesh Nagar and Khairada were saved with the help of the Force Response Thore Disaster team, said Tehsildar Patil’s sister.
A number of people were also saved from the regions that flooded near the banks of the Kamwari river in Bhiwandi, another official said.
In the Wangni Badlapur, 10 people and 70 animals were saved from the ashram, officials said.
In addition, people stranded in several regions of Kasara and Titwala who were flooded in Thane also shifted to Zilla Parishad schools, they said.
Regional Disaster Management Cell Head Thane Santosh Kadam said they received 34 call trees falling in the city, but no one was injured in the incident.
Four trees fell in the Datta Wadi area in Mumbra, after which local fire extinguisher rushed to the place.
As a precaution, the occupants of six houses there shifted, said the official.
The water entered several houses in Ganesh Nagar in the hours and around 40 people were then saved from there by the disaster response team, said Kadam.
The Nashik-Jawhar route was closed after a landslide and the operation would likely be continued by Thursday night, the palghar collector Dr Manik Gursal in a message, and asked people to use the Trambak-Deogaon-Khodala route.
Various places watched floods in Vasai, Virar and other locations in Palghar, but there were no loss losses reported so far, officials said.