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Over 3,500 people have been moved to safer places from flood-prone areas in Maharashtra, as heavy rains batter several districts in the state&nbsp; including Mumbai, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Monday.</p>
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&quot;I told the chief secretary in the morning to direct all guardian secretaries to visit their respective districts and coordinate between the NDRF, the Air force, the Navy and other departments,&quot; the Chief Minister said.</p>
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The state has been witnessing heavy rain since Monday, with water-logging reported from Mumbai and other cities, while the water level of some rivers in the state was rising rapidly.</p>
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Mumbai&rsquo;s Pawai Lake also began overflowing on Tuesday evening. The lake has a storage capacity of 545 crore litres and started overflowing at 6:15 pm, he added.</p>
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&quot;When the lake is full, the water area is around 2.23 square kilometres, while the catchment area is 6.61 square kilometres,&rdquo; a BMC official said.</p>
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The India Meteorological Department had issued &#39;red&#39; and &#39;orange&#39; alerts predicting very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall for Raigad, Ratnagiri and Mumbai.</p>
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Teams from the National Disaster Response Force or NDRF have been pressed into service.</p>
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The Chief Minister also visited the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation&#39;s disaster control room.</p>
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Shinde has told Mumbai municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal to arrange extra BEST and state transport buses to ferry stranded passengers.</p>
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