Pune rain news: Hundreds relocated as heavy showers trigger flood-like situation in city, Pimpri-Chinchwad

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Heavy rainfall has caused severe flooding in Pune city and Pimpri-Chinchwad, prompting evacuations of hundreds of residents to safer locations on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday. The evacuation efforts were still ongoing, Mid-Day reported.

As per the report, 25 residents from Pimpri-Chinchwad’s Panchsheel Nagar in Pimple Nilakh and 45 from Laxminagar in Pimple Gurav were relocated to nearby schools. While, six residents from Sanjay Gandhi Nagar in Pimpri were shifted to Kamala Nehru School. The evacuation of residents from Jadhav Ghat was also initiated. Additionally, 40 people from Ramnagar in Bopkhel were moved to a municipal school.

“All zonal officers are in close coordination with the local police inspectors, and both PCMC and PCPC teams are collectively responding. We are also in constant touch with the police department. For the night, the PCMC control room is being monitored by Executive Engineer Mobility Sunil Pawar along with five other officers,” a civic official was quoted by Mid-Day as saying.

PCMC Commissioner Shekhar Singh told reporters, “No decision has been taken yet regarding shutting down schools, nor have we received any such directive from the district collector’s office.”

Officials were quoted by Mid-Day as saying that the irrigation department increased water discharge from Pavana Dam to 15,570 cusecs at 8:30pm, and from Mulshi Dam to 25,400 cusecs at 10pm on Tuesday.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for the ghat sections of Pune district for Wednesday, predicting heavy rainfall in the region till Thursday.

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Meanwhile in Pune, as per the report, the situation turned critical after 35,000 cusecs of water was released from Khadakwasla dam. The Ekta Nagar area on Sinhagad Road was inundated. Several residents were trapped inside their homes.

Despite the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) providing temporary shelter in a nearby school, many residents chose not to evacuate their homes during a flood-like situation caused by heavy rains. Civic authorities made repeated appeals to residents to relocate to safer areas.

PMC Commissioner Naval Kishore Ram, who visited Ekta Nagar around midnight, was quoted as saying, “We had made arrangements in low-lying areas and near nullahs and streams. Teams have been deployed on the ground to ensure citizens’ safety.”