The Ganga and five other rivers are still flowing above danger mark in many parts of Bihar, triggering a flood-like situation in the districts situated along the banks of the river while in Uttar Pradesh water level of major rivers has crossed the red level at several places in the state.
The districts witnessing flood-like situation in Bihar included - Patna, Vaishali, Buxar, Bhojpur, Saran, Begusarai, Samastipur, Lakhisarai, Khagaria, Munger, Bhagalpur and Katihar - a Disaster Management Department statement said.
Delhi today experienced a sultry day with mercury settling at 36 degrees Celsius, two notches above normal for this time of the season.
Ganga and five other rivers were flowing above danger mark in Patna, Bhagalpur, Khagaria, Katihar, Siwan, Bhojpur and Buxar districts of Bihar.
Ganga was flowing above danger mark at six places in Digha ghat, Gandhi Ghat, Hathidah in Patna, Bhagalpur and Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district, and in certain points of Munger district and Buxar district, it said.
Ganga,Yamuna, Sharda and Ken are flowing above the danger markin Uttar Pradesh.
According to Centre Water Commission (CWC), Ganga is flowing above the danger mark at Fafamau and Chatnag in Allahabad,Mirzapur, Varanasi, Ghazipur and Ballia while Yamuna is flowing above red mark atChillaghat (Banda), Hamirpur and Naini (Allahabad).
Kenriver is flowing above the danger mark at Banda while Shardahas crossed the danger mark at Palliakalan (Kheri).
Heavy rainfall has been recorded at isolated areas in Udaipur and Jodhpur divisions in Rajasthan since yesterday.
Pipalkhunt in Pratapgarh recorded a maximum of 12 cm of rainfall while Jhadol in Udaipur recorded 11 cm. Many other areas received below 10 cm rains. Heavy rains are expected to lash the state in the next 24 hours, the Met department has predicted.
The National Disaster Response Force has fanned out 56 rescue and relief teams to help people hit by heavy rains in various states and tasked two Deputy Inspector General-rank officers in Bihar and UP with monitoring the situation.
"So far, the NDRF teams have evacuated more than 26,400 people from various flood-prone areas in the country this monsoon season. Besides the rescue work, these teams have provided medical care to the more than 9,100 people in these states," the force said.
Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 36 degrees Celsius and the humidity levels oscillated between 92 and 76 per cent.
The weatherman has predicted generally cloudy sky for tomorrow and maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to hover around 36 and 25 degrees Celsius respectively.
In Madhya Pradesh, rain stayed away from large parts after
the heavy downpour which claimed at least 15 lives in the state.
India Meteorological Department's Bhopal Centre director Anupam Kashyapi said heavy rainfall is likely at isolated places in Singrauli, Sidhi, Rewa, Satna, Umaria, Katni, Shahdol, Rajgarh, Guna and Agar-Malwa districts in the next 24 hours.
147 marooned people were shifted to safer places from Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh yesterday.
With Ganga in spate, rains were recorded in different parts of Bihar today. Patna recorded a rainfall of 0.7 mm while the temple town of Gaya registered 95 mm. Bhagalpur received 7.2 mm rainfall and Purnea 33.6 mm.
The Met department has predicted rains in Gaya and Bhagalpur in the next 24 hours.
NDRF teams evacuated 3,400 people from Didarganj, 580 from Bakhtiyarpur, 545 from Danapur, 380 from Chhapra, 355 from Vaishali and 15 from Maner in Patna.
Inclement weather improved in South Bengal today after two days of heavy rain.
Bankura received 172.6 mm rainfall, the highest in the state, in 24 hours from yesterday, the Met department said.
It has forecast generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain in the next two days in South Bengal districts as also in North Bengal.
Local volunteers helped 22 families to evacuate their houses and shift to safer places due to sinking of land at Hunthar locality of Mizoram, state Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Director C Lalpeksanga said today.
Rains today lashed a few places in Punjab and Haryana even as maximum temperatures hovered around normal level in both the states.
The Met Department has forecast light to moderate rain at isolated places in the two states in the next 24 hours.
