* Thirty-five people died in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra on Tuesday as incessant rains paralysed normal life in Mumbai and other parts of the state. Many parts of Mumbai city and its suburbs, as well as towns in adjoining Raigad, Thane and Palghar districts, turned into huge tracts of muddy water, witnessing people struggling to safety in waist-deep water. Small vehicles were submerged, and several tempos, trucks and heavy vehicles stranded on the roads adding to traffic snarls.

* Mumbai reportedly received the highest rainfall in a decade on Monday with 550 mm average rainfall of the entire month of June exceeding in the previous 48 hours.

* Over 1,000 people were evacuated from Kranti Nagar, Kurla , to prevent any untoward incidents due to an overflowing Mithi river.

* As a precautionary measure, the state government declared a public holiday in the city and the city administration ordered all schools and colleges to be shut.

* Flight services at the city airport were severely affected with airlines cancelling 203 serivces due to incessant rains and suspension of operations from the main runway due to the skidding of an aircraft on Monday night, airport officials said. Besides, another 350-odd flights --both arriving and departing -- were delayed between 28-51 minutes (till 7 pm).

* Almost like a monsoon miracle, one of the two lifelines of Mumbai, the Western Railway (WR), managed to stay afloat and chug along despite the city notching over 1,000 mm rainfall in the past 72 hours, officials said. The WR suburban and long-distance services were affected but they did not completely crash like its counterpart, Central Railway, which remained shut for nearly 15 hours on Tuesday after Mumbai recorded the heaviest 24-hour July rain in 45 years.

* Thirteen long-distance trains on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad sector were cancelled, 12 were short-terminated or partially cancelled, five rescheduled, one diverted and one special service was operated between Dadar and Valsad to clear the stranded passengers, besides five special buses from Surat.

* Monsoon was active over the entire north Konkan belt, including Mumbai, with IMD predicting heavy to very rainfall over most places and extremely heavy rain at a few places. On the IMD's forecast, officials said the intensity of the rainfall is likely to get intense during the next 24 hours in Mumbai and suburbs.

* A CAG report tabled in the Legislative Assembly has listed lack of adequate drain infrastructure and a delay in updating storm water disposal system as some deficiencies in the existing system for management of flood risk. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report on general and social sector has also observed that drains in Mumbai are adequate only to handle 25 mm rainfall per hour and that there are numerous obstructions in the larger drains due to siphons and other utility services.

* Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis also urged people to stay indoors. He took to his Twitter and said: "People are advised to stay indoors unless there is any emergency."

(With agency inputs)

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