Army was on Sunday called to rescue people in Jaipur’s sub-urban areas where torrential rains created flood-like situation with?Kot-Khabda recording the maximum rainfall of 32cms during last 24 hours, an official said.
District collector K Kunal said that Army was called as a stand by arrangement to meet any exigency in Jaipur’s sub-urban towns of Bassi, Lalsot and Chaksu, and jawans were on way from Jaipur Army headquarters.
So far over 500 people stranded in low-lying areas were evacuated to higher places, the collector said.
Many small dams were overflowing and some anicuts (tributaries) breached causing inundation, he said, adding, the link roads were disconnected to the highways.
He claimed that there was no loss of life so far, though some thatched roofs might have been collapsed where from no loss was reported.
The state rescue teams have reached Bassi, Lalsot, Chaksu, and Kot-Khabda to provide relief to people who have either remained in the houses or stranded here and there, a collectorate spokesman said.
Roads and houses were inundated as a minor Jaisinghpura dam breached in Kot-khabda town covering Garh-ka-Bas, Bara-Bas, Chota-bas-Basti since Saturday, the spokesman said.
Rescue teams led by the collector, ADM-II Teekamchand Bohra, and SDM Mahesh Narayan were providing relief to people and trying to find ways to release rainy water from the low- lying or inundated houses, he said.
ADM-II Bohra said over telephone that people in Bapu village were marooned as a pond was overflowing since last night, and rescue work was being made available with the help of civil defense people.
The district collector has directed the police and civil departments to ensure safety of people first and move them to safer places as soon as possible.