- By Nidhi Giri
- Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:14 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
MP Weather: Amid flood-like situation in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district, the Army was called in to carry out rescue and relief work as several people, including school children, were trapped in flooded areas in the district, officials said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an alert of heavy rain in many districts of the state in the next 24 hours.
IMD has forecast 8 to 9 inches of rain in the next 24 hours in many districts, including Bhopal, Vidisha, Narmadapuram, Raisen, Sehore, Ashoknagar, Guna, Shivpuri and Rajgarh.
Conditions similar to Shivpuri were also reported in the Guna district, where a bridge on a culvert caved-in. People from several villages in Guna have been asked to move to safer places, officials said, as per news agency PTI.
Heavy rains battered Dindori, Vidisha, Jabalpur, Narmadapuram, Alirajpur, Rajgarh and Betul districts following which officials carried out relief work.
Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia also spoke to the collectors of Guna, Shivpuri and Ashoknagar districts through video conference late Tuesday night and directed them to immediately provide security, food, pure drinking water and medical facilities in the affected areas.
Due to continuous rain and overflowing rivers and streams, many villages of Shivpuri have been inundated. In view of the situation, the district administration called the Army from Jhansi on Tuesday night, an official said, as per PTI.
So far, more than 250 persons have been shifted to safer places in the Kolaras assembly constituency while more than 100 persons are still trapped in the floods, the official said.
The most worrying situation was in Pachavali village, where nearly 30 school children were stranded for the last 24 hours and were waiting for help, he said.
(With Agency Inputs)