Ahmedabad: Situation in the rain-battered south and central Gujarat was improving with receding rains and rail and road traffic opening up on Monday, amidst reports of people and school children stranded at some places due to water-logging, official sources said.
Some school children were stranded in a village school due to water logging near Dholka in Ahmedabad district, officials said.
An Ahmedabad fire brigade team comprising 21 members have rushed to the spot to rescue the stranded, fire brigade officials said.
In another incident, around 80 students and five staff members were stranded on the second floor of a boarding school in Bhattalavdi village of Khambhat taluka in South Gujarat. Officials were trying to rescue them by boats.
Meanwhile, state flood control sources said intensity of rains has receded since last night.
More than 50,000 people from south and central Gujarat have been shifted to safer places as a precautionary measure, officials said.
Rail and road traffic was returning to normal but trains are still running late by three to four hours, railway officials said.
At least 11 people have died in the floods after heavy rains in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
So far over 60,000 people have been brought to safer areas in Maharashtra.
More than 300 homes have been submerged in the floods in Maharashtra and in Gujarat nearly 30,000 people have been evacuated.
The stranded children have now been rescued, but Khambatt is still submerged under six feet of water.
The worst affected districts of Gujarat include Surat, Valsad, Navsari, Vadodara and Anand.
Though there has been no heavy rain since Monday morning, the Met Dept says more rain maybe exptected in the next 24 hours.
The traffic situation is coming back to normal on National Highway 8 and 23 rain affected state roads are beginning to open up as well.
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