Mumbai: Heavy rains lashed the country’s economic capital on Thursday as the city prepares itself to face its highest tide in the last 100 years.
According to reports, heavy downpour led to water logging in several parts of the city and its suburbs.
However, the transport system remained largely unaffected by the downpour.
According to the Meteorological department, the city received 40 mm of rainfall till 0830 hours today.
The weather bureau has predicted spells of rains with possibility of heavy downpour in the next 24 hours.
Warnings of High tide
The civic body, Brihan Mumbai Corporation (BMC), has warned that the city could see one of the highest tide on July 23/24, which might touch 5.05 metres. This will force the BMC to keep the sluice gates shut increasing the chance of waterlogging.
The municipal agency has also decided to keep the schools closed on these days to prevent panic. It has also issued warnings through newspapers in the general interest of the city dwellers asking them to remain away from beaches and avoid roaming on the streets unnecessarily.
Besides, the civic body has also issued helpline numbers for those seeking any help or any information about the tide predictions.
The civic body has also put in place a comprehensive disaster management plan to meet the flood situation.
The civic body also intends to take help of the Indian Navy for the relief and rescue operation should there be any flood like situation due to heavydown pour and high tide.
Besides Mumbai, extensive plans have been chalked out for the neighbouring Thane and Raigad districts – which too falls in the Konkan coastal belt and the suburban train networks extends there.
BMC's Disaster management officials have met frequently and discussed the measures to be taken up during the monsoons. The meeting also included officials from other departments to ensure proper coordination.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has himself held a series of meetings with different agencies like BMC, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), Mumbai Police, Central Railway, Western Railway, Konkan Railway, India Meteorological Department besides Army, Navy and Air Force to supervise the arrangements that would be in place during the monsoon.
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The Konkan Railway (Railway Symbol:KR) is a railway line which runs along along the Konkan coast of India. Konkan Railway was constructed and is operated by a company of the same name. Konkan Railway is route from Mangalore in Karnataka to Mumbai through Goa, along the west coast of India and Western Ghats.
Until the Konkan Railway started its operations, the two important port cities Mangalore and Mumbai were not directly connected by the railway network. Even though economic reasons provided a strong need to connect these two cities, the region through which the Konkan Railway track passed was geographically very tough and would be an engineering challenge. Due to the uneven terrain of the region, Konkan Railway lines were not laid for many years.
Although the brainchild of veteran parliamentarian from Ratnagiri, Manohar Joshi, national leaders such as Madhu Dandavate and George Fernandes, who hailed from the Konkan played a major role in the conception of Konkan Railway. In 1966, Konkan Railway line was constructed between Diva in Mumbai and Apta in Raigad district. During the tenure of Madhu Dandavate, this was extended upto Roha in 1986, mainly to serve the industies located in the area. However, the missing link from Roha to Mangalore still remained. In October 1984, the Ministry of Railways decided to take a final location engineering-cum-traffic survey for the west coastal portion from Mangalore to Madgaon - a total distance of 325 km. In March 1985, the railways decided to extend the scope of their survey to include the omitted length of the west coast line extending from Madgaon to Roha. The Southern Railway was entrusted with this final location survey. They submitted the project report for this route to the Railway Ministry in 1988 and named it as the Konkan Railway after the coastline along which it runs.
The project gained impetus after George Fernandes became the Railway Minister in 1989. It was decided to constitute a separately incorporated railway company for the construction and operation of the line. Thus, on July 19, 1990, the Konkan RailwayCorporation Limited (KRCL) was incorporated as a public limited company under the Companies Act, 1956, with its headquarters at CBD Belapur in Navi Mumbai and E. Sreedharan, a senior railway official, as its first Chairman and Managing Director. The company set itself a challenging target of five years to complete the work - something that had never been achieved in India before for a project of this magnitude. The foundation stone for the project was laid at Roha on September 15, 1990, and the Corporation had its task cut out.
Until the Konkan Railway started its operations, the two important port cities Mangalore and Mumbai were not directly connected by the railway network. Even though economic reasons provided a strong need to connect these two cities, the region through which the Konkan Railway track passed was geographically very tough and would be an engineering challenge. Due to the uneven terrain of the region, Konkan Railway lines were not laid for many years.
Although the brainchild of veteran parliamentarian from Ratnagiri, Manohar Joshi, national leaders such as Madhu Dandavate and George Fernandes, who hailed from the Konkan played a major role in the conception of Konkan Railway. In 1966, Konkan Railway line was constructed between Diva in Mumbai and Apta in Raigad district. During the tenure of Madhu Dandavate, this was extended upto Roha in 1986, mainly to serve the industies located in the area. However, the missing link from Roha to Mangalore still remained. In October 1984, the Ministry of Railways decided to take a final location engineering-cum-traffic survey for the west coastal portion from Mangalore to Madgaon - a total distance of 325 km. In March 1985, the railways decided to extend the scope of their survey to include the omitted length of the west coast line extending from Madgaon to Roha. The Southern Railway was entrusted with this final location survey. They submitted the project report for this route to the Railway Ministry in 1988 and named it as the Konkan Railway after the coastline along which it runs.
The project gained impetus after George Fernandes became the Railway Minister in 1989. It was decided to constitute a separately incorporated railway company for the construction and operation of the line. Thus, on July 19, 1990, the Konkan RailwayCorporation Limited (KRCL) was incorporated as a public limited company under the Companies Act, 1956, with its headquarters at CBD Belapur in Navi Mumbai and E. Sreedharan, a senior railway official, as its first Chairman and Managing Director. The company set itself a challenging target of five years to complete the work - something that had never been achieved in India before for a project of this magnitude. The foundation stone for the project was laid at Roha on September 15, 1990, and the Corporation had its task cut out.
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