Watch: Houses, cars damaged due to heavy rains in Maharashtra district
₹10,000 while up to ₹5 lakh will be given to bigger shops. Fadvanis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had convened a review meeting to take stock of the situation in Vidharbha's largest city on Saturday evening.
Gadkari is also the Member of Parliament (MP) from Nagpur. He informed that National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and its state counterpart SDRF are undertaking rescue and relief operations across Nagpur city.
Heavy rains flooded many parts of Nagpur city within a span of a few hours. Over 400 people including 70 students from a school for speech and hearing impaired have been rescued so far, reported PTI.
Officials said that Nagpur had received around 90 millimetres of rainfall between 2 am and 4 am on Saturday, reported PTI. The administration has declared a holiday for schools and colleges as a precautionary measure.
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