Heavy rain in Mumbai: govt.
offices
closed, HC hearings hit

Landslide on Western Express Highway; healthcare staff struggle to reach hospital
Heavy showers in Mumbai
and the neighbouring areas
crippled normal life and disrupted rail and road traffic
on Tuesday, with many essential services workers, like
nurses and other medical
staff treating COVID19 patients, finding it difficult to
reach hospitals.
Several areas in the city
and suburbs have received
more than 200 mm rainfall
since Monday night. For the
second consecutive day, the
India Meteorological Department issued a red alert for
the Mumbai Metropolitan
Region (MMR) and some other parts of Maharashtra for
Wednesday.
In the morning, local train
services, currently being operated only for essential services workers, were suspended on the Harbour Line
due to waterlogging on the
rail tracks. Some services on
the Western and Central
Lines were also affected
Some roads near Byculla,
Dadar and Mahalaxmi were
inundated and the traffic
police had to divert vehicles
from those areas.
Several houses in lowlying areas like Kurla, Sion and
parts of Bhandup were
flooded due to the heavy
downpour, according to a
civic official.
A landslide on the Western Express Highway in Kandivali affected movement of
traffic towards south Mumbai. However, there were no
casualty, officials said.
Waterlogging outside the
civicrun Nair Hospital in
central Mumbai, where several COVID19 patients from
the city are being treated,
posed a problem for its medical staff. “Nurses and other
medical staff have been
struggling to reach the hospital due to waterlogging on
the premises and elsewhere,” a resident doctor from
the hospital said.
The Bombay High Court
adjourned its virtual hearings in various cases as many
staff members could not
reach the court, an official
said. The court will now hear
the matters on Wednesday,
an official said.
The State government also announced a holiday for
all its offices in Mumbai city
and suburbs on Tuesday in
view of the heavy rainfall in
the metropolis.
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