Vadodara rains: 22 trains cancelled; airport shut, army on standby
Vadodara, Aug 01: Vadodara city and nearby areas in Gujarat were pounded by heavy rains yesterday where it poured more than 16 inch in less than eight hours leading to low lying areas getting inundated.
On Wednesday, a major cloudburst in central Gujarat's Vadodara city and around threw normal life out of gear, flooding most areas.
The authorities have deployed National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams to shift people from low lying areas to safe locations while schools and colleges have been ordered to be shut on Thursday.
Extremely heavy rains likely in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held a high-level review meeting in Gandhinagar and rushed two IAS officers to oversee moving people from inundated localities in Vadodara.
Vadodara railway station has also been shut down and as many as 22 trains were cancelled, while two flights were diverted to Ahmedabad due to water-logging.
As per weathermen, heavy rains will take a backseat today and only light to moderate showers are expected. Rains will become even lighter tomorrow onward.
As per the IMD forecast, widespread rainfall across Gujarat will continue till Saturday.
Since Monday, the South West monsoon became vigorous over Saurashtra region and active over other districts of Gujarat where heavy to very heavy rainfall occurred at several places in the Central Gujarat and south Gujarat districts like Vadodara, Valsad, Surat, Dangs, Bharuch and in Daman, Dadra Nagar Haveli while Jamnagar, Dwarka and a few areas of Kutch on Wednesday.
Vadodara rains Here is the full list of cancelled, diverted, short terminated trains due to water-logging at Vadodara Station:
Cancelled
1.
69176
Anand
Bharuch
MEMU
2.
69175
Bharuch
Anand
MEMU
3.
59101
Vadodara
-
Kathana
Passenger
4.
59102
Kathana
-
Vadodara
Passenger
5.
52034
Pratapnagar
Jambusar
NG
Mixed
Passenger
6.
52033
Jambusar
Pratapnagar
NG
Mixed
Passenger
7.
22928
Ahmedabad
Mumbai
Lokshakti
Express
8.
22927
Mumbai
Ahmedabad
Lokshakti
Express
9.
22137
Prerana
Express
10.
19031
Haridwar
Mail
11.
22945
Mumbai
Central-Okha
Saurashtra
Mail
12.
12267
Mumbai
Central-Rajkot
Duronto
Express
13.
19016
Porbandar-Mumbai
Central
Saurashtra
Express
14.
12928
Vadodara
Express
15.
12927
Vadodara
Express
16.
19016
Saurashtra
Express
17.
19707
Aravali
Express
18.
12971
Bhavnagar
Express
19.
12901
Gujarat
Mail
20.
12267
Mumbai
CentralRajkot
Duronto
Express
21.
22923
Bandra
Terminus
-
Jamnagar
Humsafar
Express
22.
22903
Bandra
Terminus
Bhuj
AC
Superfast
Express
Short terminated
1.
19218
Sau
Janata
Express
short
terminated
at
Ahmedabad
Junction
2.
19217
Sau
Janata
Express
short
terminated
at
Valsad
3.
19708
Aravali
Express
short
terminated
at
Ahmedabad
Junction
4.
14707
Ranakpur
Express
short
terminated
at
Ahmedabad
Junction
5.
22452
Chandigarh
Mumbai
CDG
BDTS
Superfast
Express
short
terminated
at
Abu
Road
railway
station
6.
04817
Jodhpur
Mumbai
BGKT
BDTS
Special
short
terminated
at
Ahmedabad
Junction
7.
22956
Bhuj
Mumbai
Kutch
Express
short
terminated
at
Gandhidham
Junctio
8.
12927
Vadodara
Express
short
terminated
at
Jamnagar
9.
11096
Pune
Ahmedabad
Ahimsa
Express
short
terminated
at
Bharuch
Junction
10.
22955
Kutch
Express
short
terminated
at
Navsari
11.
59439
Ahmadabad
Passenger
short
terminated
at
Surat
12.
12972
Bhavnagar
Bandra
Express
short
terminated
at
Botad
Junction
13.
12946
Surat
Express
short
terminated
at
Rajula
Junction
14.
59832
Kota
-
Vadodara
Passenger
short
terminated
at
Dahod
15.
59831
Vadodara
-
Kota
Passenger
short
terminated
at
Dahod
16.
22137
Nagpur-Ahmedabad
Prerana
Express
short
terminated
at
Udhna/Surat
Diverted
1.
12833
Howrah
Express
diverted
via
Anand-Godhra-Ratlam-Bhopal-Itarsi-Nagpur
2.
17037
Secunderabad
-
Hisar
Express
diverted
via
Vadodara-Godhra-Ratlam-Chittaurgarh
3.
16336
Gandhidham
Express
diverted
via
Vadodara-Godhra-Dakor-Anand
4.
16210
Ajmer
Express
diverted
via
Vadodara-Godhra-Ratlam-Chittaurgarh-Ajme