Rain lashes UP, U’khand; major rivers cross danger mark

According to flood control office here, river Sharda, though static now, was flowing above the danger mark at Palia Kalan and Ramganga has also crossed the red mark at Moradabad. 

Ghaghra has crossed the danger mark at Elgin Bridge in Barabanki and was rising at Ayodhya and Turtipar (Ballia), it said. 

According to MeT office, heavy rain accompanied by thundershowers occurred at isolated places over east Uttar Pradesh. 

Chief amount of rainfall recorded in cms: Bani-10, Katerniaghat, Kanpur, Kaiserganj-9 each, Nawabganj-7, Rath, Sardanagar-5 each, Harriya, Gonda, Varanasi-4 each, Ghazipur, Lucknow, Neemsar-3 each, Barabanki, Basti, Bansgaon, Jaunpur, Mahoba, Orai, Badaun, Churk and Lakhimur Kheri-2 each, it said. 

MeT office, in a forecast, said rain or thundershowers may occur at many or few places over east and west Uttar Pradesh during the next 24 hours.

In Rajasthan, light to moderate rainfall occurred with Aklera town in Jhalawar district recording maximum of 8 cm rains on Monday.

According to MeT office, Thanagazi in Alwar and Neem ka Thana in Sikar recorded 6 and 5 cm rains respectively till morning since Sunday.

Few other places in Jaipur and Kota and isolated areas in other divisions except Jodhpur, where the weather was dry, received light rains, it said.

Weather in most of the area in the state, barring Kota which received 2.6 mm rains, was dry till evening today since morning, the MeT office said.

While in Uttarakhand there was no let up in heavy rains with landslides continuing to block traffic on the highways and keeping the char dham yatra suspended for the sixth consecutive day.

Moderate to heavy rains occurred at a number of places in the past 24 hours with Tanakpur receiving the highest 109 mm of rains followed by Champavat which recorded 59 mm of showers, a Disaster Management Centre spokesman here said.

Berinag received 38.2 mm while Dehradun 35.7 mm, Dharchula 35 mm, Didihat 33 mm, Gangolihat 30 mm, Haldwani 27 mm, Koshyakutauli 25 mm and Kapkot 22.5 mm, he said.

Yatra to the famous Himalayan shrines remains suspended with?Badrinath highway blocked at Sirobagad, Kedarnath highway at Lambagad, Gangotri highway at Sukhitop and Yamunotri highway at Junglechatti due to boulders falling from the hillsides following heavy rains, he said.

With boulders from landslides keeping the highways blocked, it has become difficult to transport essential commodities to many remote villages in the hills.

The Border Roads Organisation personnel are busy clearing these highways so that traffic on these routes could be restored at the earliest, the spokesman said.

Incessant rains have also sent most of the rivers including Ganga, Yamuna, Sharda, Kali and their major tributaries into spate prompting the administration to ask people living on their banks to move?to safe locations.

However, all of them are still flowing below the danger mark, the spokesman said.