Heavy Rain Alert: Heavy rain has affected life in many districts of Rajasthan including Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Jhalawar, Kota, Pali and Sirohi. In view of the warning of heavy rain, the administration has declared a holiday for schools in 11 districts on Tuesday.
These include Jhalawar, Kota, Chittorgarh, Tonk, Bhilwara, Baran, Dungarpur, Dholpur, Salumbhar, Banswara and Ajmer.
Relief from heavy rain is expected from August 2
On Tuesday, the Meteorological Center Jaipur has issued a ‘red alert’ for very heavy rain in three districts, an ‘orange alert’ for heavy rain in five districts and a ‘yellow alert’ in 19 districts. However, relief from heavy rain is expected from August 2.
Heavy rain due to low pressure area
According to the weather centre , a low pressure area is formed over Madhya Pradesh and adjoining eastern Rajasthan . Due to its effect, heavy and very heavy rains have been recorded in some parts of the south-eastern parts in the last 24 hours. During this period, heavy rains occurred in Kota, Bhilwara, Jhalawar, Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh, Tonk, Sirohi, Rajsamand, Pali, Bundi, Baran, Banswara and Ajmer districts. The highest rainfall in eastern Rajasthan was 242 mm in Ramganj Mandi of Kota and 235 mm in Jetpura of Bhilwara.
Heavy rain alert
According to the Meteorological Center , there is a possibility of heavy, very heavy and sometimes very heavy rains in some parts of south-eastern and north-eastern Rajasthan on July 29. On the other hand, on July 30-31, heavy and very heavy rains are expected in some places in Bharatpur, Jaipur and Ajmer divisions and moderate to heavy rains in some places in Bikaner division.
Rivers are in spate
According to officials, the gates of the dams on Chambal, Kalisindh and Banas rivers were opened due to the overflowing of rivers. The capital Jaipur received torrential rains on Monday evening due to which many low lying places were flooded. People were troubled due to traffic jams on major roads.
Life affected due to heavy rain
According to the Meteorological Center Jaipur, on Monday, 111.5 mm of rain was recorded at the irrigation building on JLN Marg in Jaipur, 74.2 mm at the Jaipur airport and 66.8 mm at the Meteorological Center office. Most of this rain occurred after 6:30 pm. A private school bus got stuck on the culvert of Kerala river in Sirohi of the state.
There were 35 children in the bus. At the same time, the police said that two bike riders were swept away while crossing the bridge of Bedach river in Chittorgarh. Flood-like conditions occurred due to waterlogging in Bijolia area of ​​Bhilwara where a boat was seen running on a road filled with water. While the bridge of Eru river was filled with water up to five feet. Due to heavy rains in Jhalawar, the situation is bad in about half a dozen villages.
