Mumbai, July 6 -- The Maharashtra State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) on Monday advised private offices in Mumbai to allow employees to work from home wherever possible, while non-essential government offices will function for a half-day, in view of the prevailing weather situation.

The advisory comes as heavy to extremely heavy rainfall continues to lash parts of Maharashtra, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a red alert for several districts. Earlier in the say, heavy rainfall caused flooding in low-lying areas of Raigad.

Traffic movement on the Mumbai-Goa Highway was also severely affected due to the waterlogging in the area.

IMD scientist Bikram Singh said many places in Mumbai received heavy to very hea...