Twenty-eight people have died in rain-related incidents in western Maharashtra, which is under the Pune division, 16 in the Aurangabad division in central Maharashtra, and three on the Konkan coast, they said.
More than 2,300 houses were damaged by heavy rains and flooding in western Maharashtra, where more than 21,000 people were moved to safer locations, according to the Pune division commissioner’s office.
“14 people died in Solapur, 9 in Sangli, 4 in Pune and 1 in Satara,” an official said.
Crops such as sugar cane, soybeans, vegetables, rice, pomegranate and cotton, spread over 57,000 hectares in the districts of Pune, Solapur, Satara and Sangli, have suffered damage.
513 head of cattle perished in the region. 2,319 homes were damaged in the four districts.
21,292 people from 6,061 households in the districts of Solapur (17,000), Sangli (1,079), Pune (3,000) and Satara (213) were transferred to safer places.
The death toll was 16 in the Aurangabad division and three in the Konkan division.
“Thirteen tehsils in the Aurangabad division had heavy rains, that is, more than 65mm in 24 hours, causing flooding and damage to houses and crops on 4.99,648 hectares,” said an official.
Crops of soybeans, bajara, corn, cotton, lentils, bananas, sunflowers and solids (black gram), among others, were damaged in the Aurangabad region, he said.
Crops of more than 1,36,176 hectares were damaged in Osmanabad district and 1,10,685 hectares in Nanded district between October 12 and 15, the official said.
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In Konkan Division, 326 houses were damaged in Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts and five head of cattle were killed.
Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts have each reported one death in rain-related incidents.
The Vaibhavwadi tehsils in Sindhudurg and Karjat, Khalapur, Murud, Pen and Alibaug in Raigad received more than 100mm of rain in recent days, the official said.
Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Vijay Wadettiwar said that farmers, mainly in the Pune division, have suffered enormous damage to their crops and he would “ask the Union government to provide some compensation to farmers who have lost their livelihood. “.
Senior Deputy Minister Ajit Pawar reviewed the flood situation in western Maharashtra and asked the administration to prepare ‘panchnama’ (inspection report) of damaged crops, houses and other property immediately.
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