According to Chandigarh Met department , rains lashed Ludhiana, Moga,Pathankot, Shahpur Kandi in Punjab while in Haryana, Gurgaon, Hisar,Rohtak, Bhiwani and Panchkula received showers. In Punjab, several villages had been put on alert in Ludhiana and Ferozepur districts in view of the rising waters of the Sutlej river.Officials said Sutlej had submerged vast tracts of agricultural land in Ferozepur district. In Haryana, 2.5 lakh cusecs water was released into the Yamuna river from Hathni Kund barrage near Yamunanagar yesterday due to heavy rainfall in catchments areas in Himachal Pardesh and Uttarakhand. Residents of several villages along the Yamuna river embankments in Haryana's Panipat, Sonepat and Karnal districts have already been put on alert in view of the swollen river.