Jhelum river on Monday crossed danger level in Srinagar and Sangam area of South Kashmir with heavy rains lashing most parts of the state which sounded an alert asking people to move to safer places. A senior official said water level of river Jhelum at 6 am at Sangam (South Kashmir) and Ram Munshi Bagh (Srinagar city) has touched 22.4 feet and 18.8 feet respectively. Danger level at Sangam is 21 feet and at Ram Munshi Bagh it is 18 feet.

Here are the Live Updates

2:10 pm: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi meets J&K ministers Altaf Bukhari, Imran Raza Ansari, and Sukhnandan Kumar in Srinagar. The ministers apprised the BJP leader about the flood situation.

Today morning PM Modi rushed Naqvi to Kashmir for on-the-spot assessment of the flood situation and to coordinate with state authorities for whatever help is required.

2:00 pm: Home Minister Rajnath Singh speaks to J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to enquire about the flood situation.

1:50 pm: J&K CM asks the Army to provide logistic support, in terms of men and machinery, to the civil administration to effectively counter the flood situation in the Valley.

1:30 pm: In view of the floods, National Crisis Management Meet begins in Home Ministry. Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth is chairing the meet.

1:15 pm: Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju assures Centre's full support to Kashmir.

1:00 pm: Around five houses sink into ground in Budgam district of Kashmir. While ten bodies have been recovered, 21 people are still missing.

12:30 pm: The Jammu and Kashmir government said that as of now it has no plans to call out the army to assist civil administration to tackle the floods.

11:45 am: J&K Education Minister Nayeem Akhtar confirms that Jhelum river is flowing above danger point in Sangam and Ram Munshi Bagh areas.

The J&K Minister advises people living along river to be on alert. Akhtar says, “We have tried to learn from last year’s disaster,” adding that flood control and management regime has been activated.

"There is a greater vulnerability of the embankments because many of them had been breached last time and the engineers were still trying to fill those gaps. So, that is a worry. But, we have mounted a 24-hour vigil on the bunds all across the valley," he says.

He further said that schools across the state have been closed for the next two days.

"We are trying to plug wherever there is a report of Jhelum having over flown a couple of places. But, that is a minor worry. The major worry would be if, god forbids, there is a breach, which we are trying to prevent," he further adds.

11:15 am: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed arrives in Srinagar to take stock of situation and assures compensation to the affected people. “We will do everything possible for the people and will try to provide compensation to non-insured people,” he says.

10:50 am: J&K Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh addresses state Assembly, says the situation is a matter of concern for all of us and the government is serious about the issue.

10:38 am: IAF aircraft loaded with relief material departs from Bathinda, Punjab.

10:37 am:  PM directed us to visit affected areas, take stock of situation and assess the damage done: MA Naqvi

10:35 am: Can use our experience from past to deal with current situation, same officials who were deployed in September should be positioned: Omar Abdullah

10:33 am: IAF aircraft loaded with relief material provided by NDRF, departs from Bathinda for Srinagar.

10:31 am:  Dy chief minister, Dr Nirmal Singh said in the state assembly that some families have been trapped in choudara area in badgam, Kashmir. He said rescue teams have been sent to the spot to help them.

10:28 am: Two houses sink into ground at Chadoora area in Budgam district of Kashmir, 16 people feared trapped: police.

10:24 am:  Omar Abdullah, former chief Minister of J-K said that situation is grim and all bandhs should be intact otherwise their would be problem. He said govt should activate all administrative units to deal with the situation as it is just same september 2014 situation. Criticising the NDA government, Omar said  till now they have not given relief package to the people who were effected in september 2014 floods.

10:04 am: Rescue teams have been rushed to the spot to save them.

10:01 am: About 20 to 25 families of Sanai and Potha in Surankote area of Poonch in Jammu trapped in the river Suran as river has changed its course.

Accordingly the authorities have declared that Kashmir has been flooded and people living in low lying areas. The government has put forth men and machinery into service to help the people affected by the floods.

People living on the banks of the river Jhelum have been asked to remain alert and advised to move to safer places. Old persons and children have also been asked to shift to specially set up camps, a government spokesman has said, reported PTI.

He said all the employees deployed for flood control have been asked to report for duty immediately.

If the water level breaches 23 feet mark, the state will have to undertake a massive rescue operations and evacuate people from areas adjoining the river.

Intermittent power cuts, landslides and water logging were witnessed in different parts of the Valley as heavy rains lashed the region, bringing back the dreadful memories of last year's devastating floods in the state that killed nearly 300 people.

The Met department has said that the wet spell will continue till next week. According to BP Yadav, director of Met department, the rains will continue to lash the state for the next 6 days, with forecast of heavy rainfall on Monday.

The situation has created panic in some areas and raised fears of fresh floods in the Valley. The authorities however have tried to dispel the fears, saying there was no reason to worry.

Minister of State for Flood and Irrigation Abdul Majid Paddar said the "Situation is under control. We are prepared for everything." He said that "the chief minister and the cabinet minister have taken cognizance of situation and we are prepared for every situation."

The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was closed following landslides at a number of places on Sunday. The road was closed on Sunday for repairs but fresh downpour has resulted in the arterial road remaining closed for the second day.

The Srinagar-Gulmarg road was also closed after a bridge in Kunzar village was washed away by the swollen Ferozepur Nallah.