With heavy rains continued to hit parts of Jharkhand over the week, the Central Reserve Police Force swung to action to rescue civilians from low-lying areas. The force, in its tweet, said it rescued some 250 people by Monday afternoon. While most places got light to moderate rain on Sunday, some places in the western regions of the state saw heavy rainfall.
Daltonganj, a city nearly 300 km north-west of Jamshedpur, saw the highest rainfall with 178 mm on Monday. In some districts, after pounding the state for several consecutive days, the rain gods seemed to have gone slow on Monday. According to data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Chaibasa recorded 41.5 mm of rain over a 24-hour period ending at 8.30am on Monday.
Jamshedpur received 16.3 mm in the same period. On Saturday, Jamshedpur received 146 mm of rainfall - the highest in a 24-hour period for the season. Some of the areas that were affected were Sonari, Mango, Jugasalai, and Kadma.
Though the rains have somewhat subsided, the stagnant water took time to drain away. "Not just the parking area, the water submerged the building up to the first floors,” said a resident of Adarshnagar Society in Jamshedpur to The Times of India. “Due to a lack of proper drainage system in the area, water gushed into our houses at midnight,” said another resident.
Forecasts suggest that widespread light to moderate rains are likely to continue till Tuesday across Jharkhand. An IMD statement said a low-pressure system is now over western parts of Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining Jharkhand and Bihar. The monsoon low-pressure is drawing moisture-laden clouds from the Bay of Bengal.
Meanwhile, northern parts of the country including Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand continues to face the fury of the monsoon with heavy rains washing away houses in these states. Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh received flood alerts from IMD as the Yamuna and other rivers swelled and threatened to flood its banks.
