Agra: Agra city of Taj ,on saturday battling the results of a record 142 millimeter rainfall in precisely twelve hours daily earlier.

This year agra has had 1,003 millimeter of rain against the annual average of around 675 millimeter.

It took the complete day friday for shopkeepers and tradres to assess the large losses as rain water filled their warehouses and entered even a number of the glitzy showrooms, all decked out up for the festival season.
The municipal corporation was still pumping out water from searching complexes and residential colonies,On
saturday
Some roads collapsed and elements of the underground drains caved in, causing additional issues.

The blame game continues.

When you illicitly construct nursing homes or searching complexes and stock up ponds to boost structures, what does one expect? asked Shravan Kumar Singh, Associate in Nursing cheesed off activist.

Water entered many personal nursing homes whereas entire colonies were marooned Friday.

In the rural country, the case was worse as fields got submerged by a ocean of water.

Farmer Ravi Singh aforementioned the significant rains had broken the bajra crop.

The region involving metropolis district and encompassing areas has been lashed by new rains.

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and province Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had to cancel their public meeting at Mainpuri because of the wet season.

In 1910, metropolis received 169 millimeter in an exceedingly single day.

But those days there was no drawback of water work and therefore the town was a lot of smaller in size and population,” aforementioned social activist Anand Rai.

“Now metropolis is unfolded and therefore the natural waterways have all been taken by greedy land sharks,” Rai said.