Nearly 2 lakh people affected by floods in UP

Lucknow: Nearly two lakh people in 601 villages across 23 districts of Uttar Pradesh have been affected by floods, according to data released by the state government.

Relief Commissioner G.S. Naveen Kumar said that all the embankments in the state were safe and district magistrates of flood-affected districts were directed to conduct survey of inundation of agriculture land, destruction of crops due to flood and submit a report to the state government.

The flood-hit districts are Amroha (45 villages), Azamgarh (8), Ballia (1), Barabanki (4), Basti (6), Bijnor (30), Badaun (27), Farrukhabad (115), Fatehpur (4), Gonda (23), Gorakhpur (4), Hardoi (55), Kannauj (9), Kanpur (3), Kasganj (57), Lakhimpur Kheri (26), Kushinagar (1), Mau (3), Meerut (40), Muzaffarnagar (40), Shahjahanpur (14), Sitapur (6) and Unnao (80).

The state government has set up 1,101 shelters and 1,504 flood outposts in the affected districts while 2,135 medical teams have been sent to flood-hit villages.

A total of 2,838 boats were pressed into service to carry out rescue operations and 14 rescue teams of NDRF, SDRF and PAC were deployed in flood-affected districts for rescue and relief work.

The state revenue department organised ‘rahat chaupal’ at 5,014 places in flood-prone districts.

According to the irrigation department, river Ramganga was flowing above danger level in Shahjahanpur and Ghaghra was above the danger level in Ballia.

The Relief Commissioner said Uttar Pradesh received an average rainfall of 1.4 mm in the last 24 hours, which was 29 per cent of the normal rainfall of 4.8 mm.

The state received an average 495.9 mm rainfall since June 1, which was 84 per cent of the normal rainfall of 588.1 mm.

In the past 24 hours, no district received 30 mm or more rainfall, he said.

More than excess rainfall was recorded in 12 districts, normal rainfall in 24 districts, deficient rainfall in 22 districts, extremely deficient rainfall in 11 districts and six districts recorded less than 40 per cent rainfall since the start of the monsoon season.

–IANS