Heavy rains lash Nagpur, several areas waterlogged

Heavy rains in Nagpur cause flooding, prompting admin. to declare school holiday & shift people to safer places. Deputy CM Fadnavis monitoring situation, instructs teams to rescue people. NMC advises people to stay indoors. IMD predicts thunderstorms, intense rain at isolated places.

Heavy rains lashed Nagpur city from Friday, September 22 midnight, inundating low-lying areas and triggering measures to shift people from these pockets to safer places.

According to the weather department, Nagpur airport reported 106 mm of rainfall till 5.30 am.

Several roads and residential areas have been inundated, said officials. The administration has declared a holiday for schools as a precautionary measure.

Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is from Nagpur, took to X to share that he is continuously monitoring the rain situation in the city.

“There has been incessant rainfall due to which the Ambazari lake is overflowing. The low-lying area around it is affected more due to this. Other parts of the city too are affected,” said his office on X.

The deputy CM has instructed the Nagpur collector, municipal commissioner and police commissioner to “immediately activate multiple teams for rescuing people who are stuck at few places”, Fadnavis’s office said.

Teams from the National Disaster Response Force and State Disaster Response Force are also being deployed, it said.