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Mumbai: ‘12 hours to reach home due to intense rainfall’ It was raining heavily when Hirji Harad, along with his colleagues, left his Kalwa office at around 11pm. It usually takes him around an hour to reach home in Shahapur by local train, but the night of July 21 was nothing less than horrific. It took Harad a good 12 hours to get back home owing to intense rainfall that battered the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) on Wednesday night. Harad was only one of the 5,700 passengers stranded on the Ambernath-Karjat and Titwala-Kasara routes on Wednesday night. Inclement weather led to water-logging on railway tracks and nearby areas of Umbermali and Kasara stations. This further resulted in disruption of rail traffic between Igatpuri and Khardi. The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) was asked to come to their rescue at 4 am on Thursday and operate 133 buses – 93 from Thane depot and 40 from Nashik depot. By 9 pm on Thursday, trains on only the Amberna

Ramesh patoleHirji haradCentral railwayMumbai metropolitan regionMaharashtra state road transport corporationமைய ரயில்வேமும்பை பெருநகர பகுதிமகாராஷ்டிரா நிலை சாலை போக்குவரத்து நிறுவனம்