In pics: Heavy rain wrecks havoc across India, Yamuna crosses danger mark

More than 1500 people have been killed in India due to landslide, storm and flood this year.

Heavy Rainfall : Delhi has received 302.6 mm of rain in July. The rain is 11 per cent above normal. According to Indian Meteorological Department, Delhi is expected to witness light rainfall on Tuesday, while no rain is expected between Thursday and Sunday.

The Supreme Court of India lashed on Centre, the Uttar Pradesh government and Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) authority for their failure to restore the pristine glory of Taj Mahal. TTZ is an area of about 10,400 sq km spread over the districts of Agra, Firozabad, Mathura, Hathras and Etah in Uttar Pradesh and Bharatpur district of Rajasthan.

Over 10 person have ben killed and seven injured due to heavy downpour in Uttar Pradesh, in the last 24 hours. 11 deaths were reported from Sahranpur district. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to take extensive tours in the rain affected areas and identify dilapidated buildings and start the evacuation.

600 NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) personnel have been deployed in Assam to carry out resue operation in all the flood-hit regions. This year, many northeastern states have witnessed less rainfall than normal.

Incessant rainfall in Bihar has opened the floodgates of misery for people. On Sunday, state-run Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) was inundated with water. Small fish was seen swimming in the flooded ICU.

The Bailey road, considered to be the lifeline of Patna, cave din due to incessant rainfall. Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, along with his cabinet colleagues visited the site.

More than 1500 people have been killed in India due to landslide, storm and flood, this year. The number of death, reported by National Emergency Response Center, recorded 139 in Maharashtra.

A road overbridge collapsed near Andheri on July 3 due to heavy rainfall that affected local and distance train services.

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Govt to build new rail bridge over Yamuna river in Delhi to ease congestion

Popularly known as Loha Pul, the old bridge gets affected during floods as train movement slows down.

Aiming to speed up train movement over the Yamuna and also decongest the Ghaziabad-New Delhi rail corridor - one of the busiest in the country -- Indian Railways has proposed an additional rail bridge over the river in the capital.



While the old Yamuna rail bridge -- also known as Loha Pul - will give way to a new double-line rail bridge by March next year, another bridge is set to come up near the existing Nizamuddin rail bridge to ensure faster and seamless movement of about 150 outbound and inbound passenger and freight services.



Currently, train movement between Ghaziabad and New Delhi station takes more than an hour -- and sometimes even two hours -- due to over-congestion on the route, causing much inconvenience to passengers. There has been demand to ensure an additional path for Delhi-bound trains to improve punctuality.



The proposed 600-metre bridge near the existing Nizamuddin rail bridge, to be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 4.25 billion, will provide an additional path for Delhi-bound services and ensure that trains negotiate the bridge at above 100 km per hour.



"The hydraulic study for the proposed new rail bridge is underway and we are expecting the construction to start by year-end," a senior Railway Ministry official told IANS.



The construction of this new bridge along the Nizamuddin bridge is expected to claim about 2,000 kikar trees on the dry riverbed.



As far as the replacement of the old Yamuna bridge is concerned, the 800-metre-long new double-line rail bridge -- being built at an estimated cost of Rs 2 billion -- is expected to be operational by March next year, as the work is on full steam.

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