Incessant heavy rains have triggered flood-like conditions across several parts of Pune city and Pimpri-Chinchwad, prompting civic authorities to evacuate hundreds of residents to safer locations as of 12:41am on Wednesday. The evacuation process was still ongoing.

In Pimpri-Chinchwad, 25 residents from Panchsheel Nagar in Pimple Nilakh and 45 from Laxminagar in Pimple Gurav were shifted to nearby municipal schools. Six residents from Sanjay Gandhi Nagar in Pimpri were relocated to Kamala Nehru School, while the evacuation of residents from Jadhav Ghat was also initiated. Additionally, around 40 people from Ramnagar in Bopkhel were moved to a municipal corporation school.

These evacuation efforts began late at night and were ongoing till the time of filing this report.

“All zonal officers are in close coordination with the local police inspectors, and both PCMC and PCPC teams are collectively responding. We are also in constant touch with the police department. For the night, the PCMC control room is being monitored by Executive Engineer Mobility Sunil Pawar along with five other officers,” a civic official said.