Children walk on tracks after rain disrupted rail traffic in Ranchi on Thursday. Picture by Prashant Mitra Ranchi, July 22: Heavy rain lashed the state capital today, inundating several areas and swamping railway tracks. Movement of several trains was affected, though the situation was not as alarming as it was in Jamshedpur when it experienced record rainfall in a day in June. The Ranchi-Lohardaga railway tracks at Ranchi Junction were waterlogged. "We had to operate trains slowly,' said Vivek Srivastava, the senior divisional commercial manager of Ranchi railway division. The capital had recorded 0.2mm in the morning but by evening, the rainfall experienced in Ranchi was 41.5mm. Regular showers are expected across the state during the next week, said weather scientists. Most places across Jharkhand would get about 10mm to 15mm of rainfall every day this week, they said. "Monsoon is active in central and north-eastern parts of the country. But the volume of rainfall received would be less during this time when compared to the previous weeks,' said A. Wadood, the weather scientist of Birsa Agriculture University, Kanke. The meteorological centre in Ranchi has predi- cted cloudy skies, with one or two spells of showers in the next 24 hours. The rain, Wadood said, would be a blessing for agriculture as such weather is good for paddy cultivation. However, Ranchi residents can be glad that they did not have to undergo what their Jamshedpur counterparts had to in June. The industrial city had recorded 338mm of rainfall on June 18