00:00More news coming in. These are heavy rains that are triggering landslides in the state of Maharashtra.
00:06This is the India Today ground report from the Mumbai Pune Expressway at this point in time.
00:12On camera, debris being cleared by officials.
00:15Earlier, the Mumbai Pune Expressway was closed temporarily.
00:18These are pictures speaking volumes of the kind of devastation that is being seen.
00:25This is the Mumbai Pune Expressway which has been completely cut off.
00:30Traffic, of course, we understand is now partially resumed here.
00:34But images are the manner in which the landslides, the debris of the same is being cleared.
00:53So images coming at this point in time of the situation in the Mumbai Pune Expressway which is now affecting
00:59the traffic in this key stretch.
01:00As far as movement of people is concerned, it's a landslide that occurred at tunnel number 40 at the Mumbai
01:07Pune route is what we know.
01:10It has been opened as of now. The traffic is being allowed.
01:13But images are the manner in which efforts were being made to clear out the debris, remove the debris that
01:19had fallen on the road following the landslides.
01:23Vidya sent us the support earlier. Let's take a look.
01:27We are right now in the Mumbai Pune Expressway and this is the missing link that had been inaugurated in
01:33a much faster than about two months ago.
01:36But right here, you can see how this entire landslide has happened around Monday 4 o'clock in the morning.
01:43And since then, amidst heavy rainfall, gusty wind that you can see here, they are trying to restore this entire
01:51way.
01:51The traffic that had entered this place that was taken out from the older room itself,
01:59vehicular traffic is going on between Pune to Mumbai.
02:03This is the portion of the road between Pune to Mumbai where this entire landslide has happened.
02:09And right here, you can see entire work, according to the contractor here, will take about three to four hours.
02:16Around three hours is maximum that they are saying that they will be able to restore this work and put
02:21it back for use for the vehicular traffic to move.
02:23Right here, you can see how the entire, during the landslide, the entire concrete work, this entire slab,
02:31which was on top of this tunnel, that collapsed right here.
02:35And thankfully, there was not much traffic around that time.
02:38Or else, it could have led to a much bigger measure.
02:42With cameraman Mahesh Moreh in Mumbai, will be there for India today.
03:23foreign
03:54I'm going straight to my colleague Vidya for the very latest on that story.
03:58She sent us that report earlier.
04:00Vidya, how is the situation as of now?
04:03This partial restoration of services?
04:04What more can you tell us?
04:06Well, at the missing link where the entire landslide had taken place earlier on 4 in the morning.
04:14And even now the restoration work is still going on.
04:17In fact, the restoration work will take a couple of hours more is what we have been told before the
04:22missing link.
04:23Remember this missing link on the Mumbai-Pune expressway was inaugurated by the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister
04:30with much fanfare around two months ago.
04:34And right here, the very entrance of, you know, if you're coming in from Pune going towards Mumbai, at the
04:42end of the tunnel, this entire, you know, landslide has taken place because of which you can see the entire
04:48traffic on the expressway of this portion has been stopped.
04:53The expressway is being used, the older one, that is still being used for people to reach Mumbai.
05:01And certainly that is creating quite a lot of traffic jams.
05:04The traffic movement on that route is slightly slow.
05:07Right.
05:08Be with us.
05:08Coming back to you in a moment from now.
05:10Vidya getting asked those details.
