Thane/Palghar, Jul 5 (PTI) Relentless rains over the past 48 hours crippled life across Thane district in Maharashtra, causing waterlogging, tree falls and a gallery collapse at a building in which two persons were injured, officials said on Sunday.
The Thane Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) received 93 complaints during the last 24 hours, including 24 instances of tree falls, 22 branch falls, 24 of waterlogging, 8 compound wall collapses, and one landslide incident, they said.
Several low-lying areas in Thane city, Kalyan, Bhiwandi, Ulhasnagar, Dombivli, and Navi Mumbai were flooded, leaving numerous residents marooned, they said.
The weather office has predicted heavy rains in the region over the next two days.
A portion of a first-floor
gallery collapsed at the 45-year-old two-storey Tiwari Bhawan building at Kisan Nagar in the Wagle Estate area here on Saturday night, RDMC chief Yasin Tadvi said.
Two passersby, identified as Noori Islam Sheikh (65) and Suresh Thapa (36), sustained injuries. Sheikh, who suffered head and shoulder injuries, is currently undergoing treatment at a local hospital, he said.
“Following the incident, the entire building was evacuated as a safety precaution due to the precarious state of the remaining gallery structure. A family residing in the terrace flat has been shifted to a temporary civic shelter at a TMC School,” Tadvi said.
In another incident, a first-floor balcony slab collapsed at the five-storey Avighna Co-operative Housing Society in Shahbaz Village, Belapur, in Navi Mumbai township on Saturday night.
Following the incident, all 17 flats in the building were vacated, an official from the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) said.
“No casualties were reported. The electricity supply to the building was disconnected, and the premises have been locked. A majority of the displaced residents were safely shifted to the NMMC’s Warkari Bhavan in Belapur via civic buses, while others moved to relatives’ homes,” the official stated.
In certain localities of Thane district, including parts of Ulhasnagar, residents remained stranded in floodwaters for over 48 hours. They blamed local civic administration, alleging a lack of proper pre-monsoon cleaning and desilting of major stormwater drains.
Thane city recorded 184.66 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours ending at 8:30 am on Sunday. The cumulative rainfall for this season has reached 948.71 mm, compared to 959.81 mm last year, Tadvi said.
The neighbouring Palghar district also witnessed continuous overnight downpours, but there was no report as of now of any major untoward incident or casualties, district disaster management cell Vivekanand Kadam said. PTI COR GK
