The search for these missing people has been called off after seeking the opinion of NDRF/SDRF/TDRF: Raigad DM
"We are trying hard to rescue people trapped under landslide debris in Raigad and Satara but the possibility of evacuating them alive is remote. They are trapped under mud for more than three days," said a senior official with the state government, referring to two badly affected districts.
The death toll in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra rose to 164 on Monday after the recovery of 11 more bodies in Raigad and two each in Wardha and Akola, while 100 people were still missing, the state government said. So far, 2,29,074 persons have been evacuated from the affected areas, the government said in a statement.
It said till now, 71 people have died in Raigad district, 41 in Satara, 21 in Ratnagiri, 12 in Thane, seven in Kolhapur, four in Mumbai and two each in Sindhudurg, Pune, Wardha and Akola. Besides, 56 people have been injured in rain-related incidents, while 100 people are still missing, it said. In Raigad, 53 people were reported missing, in Satara-27, Ratnagiri-14, Thane-four, and Sindhudurg and Kolhapur-one each.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had to cancel his visit to the flood-hit Patan taluka in Satara district on Monday due to rough weather, an official said. Thackeray was to take a helicopter from Pune to Koynanagar and conduct an aerial survey of the affected areas. He was also scheduled to meet the affected people at a shelter camp set up at a zilla parishad school in Koynanagar.
Various Central Government schemes will be utilized to help flood-affected traders in Ratnagiri, he says
Credit: Defence PRO, Mumbai
The Mumbai-Bengaluru highway continued to be shut for vehicular traffic for the third day on Sunday as its stretch near Shiroli village in rain-battered Kolhapur district of Maharashtra remained submerged, a police official said.
As a result, around 2,000 Karnataka-bound vehicles, including trucks, are stranded on the national highway, the district police said.
The mega-floods in the twin geographically diverse regions of Konkan and Western Maharashtra have left a shocking trail of destruction with the toll mounting to 149 even as 64 persons are still reported missing.
With traffic affected because of breaches in roads and large parts still inundated it would take some time for people to return to normalcy.
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