Following heavy rains, nine teams from the NDRF were deployed to Maharashtra

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed nine rescue teams in Maharashtra, consisting of 4 in Mumbai, after heavy rains induced flooding in a few coastal areas of the nation on Thursday.

Mumbai, its neighbouring Thane and Palghar and different districts in the Konkan area have been witnessing heavy downpour since the previous couple of days, leading to inundation at numerous places and disruption of rail and avenue shipping offerings.

Water level of many rivers has risen and crossed the danger mark at a few places.

An official statement issued by the NDRF said 4 of its teams had been deployed in Mumbai, and one each in Thane and Palghar districts.

One group will reach Chiplun city in Ratnagiri district by overdue afternoon.

Besides, two groups have been sent to Kolhapur district. One of it's going to undertake rescue or preventive evacuation in the flood-susceptible Shirol tehsil, even as the opposite one will conduct rescue work in Kolhapur city, the NDRF stated.

Some villages in the Sahapur taluka of Thane were marooned, a nearby authentic in advance stated, adding that government with the help of the NDRF rescued loads of humans from those places.

Incidents of water-logging leaving human beings stranded were also mentioned from Mumbra, Bhiwandi, Titwala and Kasara regions of Thane district.

Various places in Vasai, Virar and other locations in Palghar additionally witnessed flooding, but no lack of existence became mentioned up to now, officials said.

The Modak Sagar dam at Sahapur in Thane started out overflowing within the early hours of Thursday and of its gates had been opened to release the water, the district administration said.

Train offerings of the Central Railway within the Kasara Ghat segment of Thane and close to Lonavala hill city in Pune district adjacent Mumbai were severely affected after heavy rains brought on flooding, washing out of tracks, boulder crashes and mudslides in that vicinity, officers said.

Besides, train offerings on the Konkan Railway path in Ratnagiri had been additionally suspended inside the morning after a river overflowed following heavy rains inside the region, they stated.