The Thane Municipal Corporation on Monday started a drive to collect essential items to help those affected by the floods and landslide in Raigad district and asked people to donate generously.

The TMC, in a release, said people in Mahad-Poladpur, where Taliye village was flattened by a landslide, and other areas inundated after incessant rains required mineral water, clothes, towels, food items and grains, blankets, diapers, sanitary napkins, candles, torches etc.