Parts Of Chennai Under Water After Heavy Rain Overnight
Heavy overnight rainfall led to waterlogging in Tamil Nadu. The school education department has declared a holiday for schools and colleges in Chennai and five other locales on Friday and Saturday.
The climate office has anticipated overwhelming precipitation in parts of the state and the specialists have set up 5,093 alleviation camps, counting 169 in Chennai.
Visuals appeared streets submerged within the Pulianthope territory of north Chennai as vehicles explored the ankle-deep water. It gets to be very difficult for us to induce our day-by-day fundamentals, said a resident.
As numerous as 879 waste pumps have been sent in low-lying regions of the city and 60 observing officers have been put in charge of the influenced districts.
Over 2,000 help workforce, both from the central and state catastrophe reaction strengths, are on standby.
While the overnight rain immersed the northern portion of the city, its southern and central parts, counting T-Nagar and Velacherry, were saved to a great extent due to the modern storm-water channels built over the final seven months.
A progressing ₹ 3,000-crore extend including the development of 700 km storm-water channels will address the waterlogging issues in regions like Korattur and Periya Nagar, said
