Due to flooded streams and the wardha river being at flood stage after Sunday's heavy rainfall in upstream areas, Sirpur (T) mandal was still shut off on three sides. Rainwater contacted bridge beams erected across the wardha River at Hudkili and Podsa in the Chandrapur district and Venkatraopet in the Sirpur (T) mandal, causing traffic on these structures to be suspended. Meanwhile, travel on the Sirpur (T)-Koutala highway was hampered when a stream and a tributary of wardha inundated a high-level bridge at Parigaon village in Sirpur (T) mandal.

For a variety of reasons, residents of Koutala, Chintalamanepalli, and maharashtra were had to travel other routes to Kaghaznagar. It was forbidden for residents of the Sirpur (T) mandal centre and the nearby villages to go to Koutala and Maharashtra. To stop people from using the bridge and the roads leading to the maharashtra and Koutala mandals, local police were stationed there.

On Monday, the minimum temperatures fell precipitously in a number of regions of the State. The lowest temperature ever recorded in the last 24 hours was 9.1 degrees Celsius at Kumram bheem Asifabad's Sirpur (U), and morning measurements also indicated that Sirpur had dropped even lower, to 8 degrees Celsius.


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