Overflowing Hindon river inundates several areas in Greater Noida, admin evacuates people | Watch video

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water level is stable but we need to be alert for the next 24 hours. A video is viral of a private cab company yard where they have dumped cars...since last 4 days we were alerting them to shift the cars, but they didn't..." says Manish Kumar Verma, DM Gautam Budh Nagar. The senior officials of the administration also inspected the shelter homes in Chhijarsi, Chotpur, and Haibatpur as people from low-lying areas were evacuated.

On Tuesday, around 350 cars of online cab aggregator, Ola were submerged while being parked at a dump yard as the water from swollen Hindon River inundated the area. The police said that the vehicles in the yard were those recovered during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic or were damaged. "In the village, there is a dump yard for Ola's car.

The vehicles recovered during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic or those vehicles which got damaged are kept at this yard. The number of these vehicles is around 350. It is built on the land of a person named Satpal.

There is a boundary wall around the dump yard, whose caretaker is Dinesh Yadav, who was present on the spot," the police said in a statement. The authorities in Gautam Budh Nagar decided to keep the schools closed on Wednesday due to the waterlogging in the area. “Due to rains and waterlogging, District Magistrate Manish Kumar Verma has ordered the closure of all schools up to Class 12 for today," said District Inspector of Schools Dharmveer Singh.