Jharkhand: Water flowing on diversion road, minister gets stranded

Jamshedpur: Jharkhand minister Saryu Roy was on Monday stranded for over one-and-a-half hour while going to Ranchi from here as a diversion on Tata-Kandra road was submerged by water following heavy rains last afternoon.

The food, civil supply and consumer affairs minister was returning to Ranchi after attending some programmes when he found the diversion was flowing under 3 feet deep water, the minister's secretary Anand Kumar said.

Roy crossed the road when the water level reduced and the traffic started resuming slowly, he said.

The traffic on Tata-Kandra road came to a standstill after the diversion, set up under the damaged road bridge at Pulwama in Seraikela-Kharswan district, submerged following heavy rains that lashed the area for half an hour.