Mumbai Heavy rains: Local train services resume on Central, Harbour Line

Mumbai: Local train services affected on Central Main Line and Harbour Line due to incessant rainfall resumed in Mumbai on Monday morning. Trains on Central Main Line, Harbour Line, and Trans Harbour line are running in Mumbai.

Traffic across the city also crippled as several parts of the state faced severe waterlogging. As many as 33 people have died in rain-related incidents in the city. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has expressed grief over the deaths in incidents at Chembur and Vikhroli due to torrential rains and announced Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia to victims’ kin, free treatment to the injured.

The Shiv Sena has, however, given a clean chit to Mumbai civic body BMC, saying around one lakh people stay on hill slopes in Mumbai and vicinity and these people will always be at risk during extreme rainfall. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast moderate to heavy rain/thundershowers in Mumbai and suburbs with the possibility of very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places.