Authorities have decided to lift six gates of the Jayakwadi dam in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district of Maharashtra on Monday afternoon to release water after continuous inflow in the reservoir, an official said.

The water stock in the Jayakwadi dam reached 97.3 per cent of the storage capacity in the morning owing to rain in catchment areas of the Godavari river in Maharashtra, the official told PTI.