Over 130 Roads Shut For Traffic As Heavy Rain Batters Gujarat

Monsoon 2020: As many as 131 roads in Gujarat, together with a countrywide freeway and 7 state highways, have been close for site visitors as heavy rain battered a number of portions of the state on Friday, officers mentioned. With the formation of a low-pressure space, some portions of the state are prone to get very heavy rainfall on Saturday and Sunday, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) mentioned.

Incessant rainfall since Friday morning ended in water-logging and site visitors chaos. The state govt mentioned that average to heavy rainfall was once recorded in Kutch, north and south Gujarat lately.

Valsad, Mehsana, Kutch, Navsari and Narmada districts gained extraordinarily heavy rain. Many roads within the state – one each and every in Kutch, Anand, Bharuch, Surat, Junagadh, Porbandar and Gir Somnath
districts – have been close for site visitors motion, an legit observation mentioned. 

The Meteorological Centre in Ahmedabad predicted heavy rain in portions of the state on August 22 and 23. “A well-marked low stress space is lately over the japanese Madhya Pradesh and it’s transferring in opposition to Gujarat. The program would deliver common rain,” Director of the Met Centre, Jayanta Sarkar mentioned.  

“Owing to incessant rain because the starting of this month, Gujarat has already gained 89 in step with cent of the season’s moderate rainfall,” Mr Sarkar added.