Rain fury: Over 30 villages in Banaskantha put on alert, 350 people relocated
Two male labourers from Madhya Pradesh died after lightning strike on Thursday in Sevak Dhuniya village in Lalpur taluka of Jamnagar district, Jamnagar collector K B Thakkar told The Indian Express adding that two others were taken to the district hospital for treatment after sustaining burns.
Banaskantha Collector Mihir Patel told The Indian Express that 350 people were relocated from villages of Palanpur taluka in Banaskantha district on Thursday.
In the last 24 hours ending at 5 pm on Thursday, Vadgam, Palanpur and Dantiwada talukas received 8.6 inch, 6.1 inch and 6 inch of rainfall, respectively.
'All schools in talukas of Palanpur, Vadgam, Dhanera, Amirgadh and Deesa were closed on Thursday. No casualty, however, was reported. The situation is under control,' Patel also said.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert in Banaskantha for July 6, along with Sabarkantha and Aravalli.
As per an IMD forecast, while the state is expected to receive heavy rainfall till July 9, an orange alert has been issued in the districts of Sabarkantha and Aravalli for July 5 and Navsari and Valsad for July 7 and 8.
Districts of Banaskantha and Sabarkantha received heavy rainfall till 6 pm on Thursday. While Idar in Sabarkantha recorded 5.5 inch (140 mm) of rainfall, Dhanera recieved 116 mm, Dantiwada 81 mm, Vadgam 81 mm, Palanpur in Banaskantha district received 63 mm.
Other districts in Saurashtra region including Rajkot, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Botad and Junagadh received heavy rainfall on Thursday. In theses dictricts, Jamkandorna recieved 110 mm rainfall, Dhoraji 83 mm, Jodiya 101 mm, Lalpur 86 mm, Chuda 84 mm, Wadhwan 78 mm, Bhiloda 67 mm, Vadnagar 65 mm, Jetpur 64 mm, Rajkot 62 mm, Ranpur 58 mm, Kalavad 57 mm.
As per the IMD, the state continues to be on alert owing to the 'monsoon trough that continues to pass through Bikaner, Sheopur, Khajuraho, Daltonganj, Digha and thence east southeastwards to northeast Bay of Bengal, cyclonic circulation over central parts of west Rajasthan, trough from northeast Arabian sea to northwest Bay of Bengal across Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, the cyclonic circulation over north Odisha adjoining Gangetic west Bengal between tilting south-westwards'.
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