A day after India’s financial capital Mumbai received a whopping 15 cm average rainfall in 12 hours – the heaviest this season – things are returning to normal on Tuesday.
As per reports, rail, road and air traffic is returning to normal and water has receded despite overnight rains.
The Met department has forecast heavy to very heavy rains for Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra over the next two days.
In yesterday’s rains in Mumbai, one person was killed. Five others lost their lives in rain-related incidents in other parts of the state.
Monday’s incessant rains resulted in overflowing of Thane district’s Lake Tansa, a major source of drinking water for the 17 million people of the city.
Some parts of the city received between four to eight centimetres of rains since Monday morning, raising hopes that the water deficit would be wiped out this year.
Several low-lying areas in the city and suburbs were waterlogged, slowing down vehicular movement and causing massive traffic snarls on both the national highways and other major roads.
In the evening, five people were injured in a house-collapse in Chunabhatti area of central Mumbai as torrential rains continued.
Water logging was reported from parts of Borivli, Kandivli, Jogeshwari, Andheri, Santacruz, Bhandup, Sion, Byculla and some areas in Dadar, Worli, Goregaon and Kurla experienced flooding.
Suburban train services were disrupted on the Western Railway, Central Railway and Harbour Line with average 20-30 minutes delays, hitting office workers and students.
The evening peak hour witnessed chaos with a signal failure at Santacruz-CST on the Harbour Line route and trains virtually crawling to their destinations. People commuting from South Mumbai to their homes in the suburbs were stuck en route and reached their destinations only after long delays of one-two hours.
In Rajasthan, the Met department has forecast mild to moderate showers for the capital Jaipur. Monday’s rains left the city waterlogged and severely hit vehicular traffic.
The world-renowned Ajmer dargah wasn’t spared either and authorities were trying to fortify it from the water that has accumulated in the surrounding areas due to heavy rains.
—IANS