Chambal river water crosses red mark heavy destruction in 38 villages

Uttar Pradesh | The floods in Chambal wreaked havoc on Wednesday. 17 villages of Bah and Pinahat blocks were submerged in the raging form of the river flowing four meters above the danger mark. Seeing the danger imminent, more than five thousand villagers fled from the villages. He spent the night in the open on the dunes. Eight thousand hectares of crops have been submerged in the floods. At the same time, due to the submergence of the roads, the contact of the villages with the headquarters was lost. Villagers of village Jharnapura were evacuated by motorboat. While the army was called in to deal with the floods in nearby Dholpur and help was taken. The administration has set up eight flood posts in the area.

After releasing 12 lakh cusecs of water from Kota barrage, the water level of the river crossed 134 meters at around 10 pm on Wednesday. While the danger mark is at 130 meters. Schools, farm barns and homes in more than 17 villages in the area were submerged. Bah's Mau ki Madhaiya, Gohra, Rani Pura, Bhatpura, Gudha, Jharna Pura, Dagora, Kachiara, Reha, Umraithapura have been cut off from the tehsil headquarters. The process of helpless people fleeing from the village to reach safe places was going on. Whereas, Pura Shivlal, Pura Dal, Pura Bhagwan, Dhandhu Pura, Beach Pura, Kaadi, Jagtupura, Kunwar Kheda, Basauni, Zebra, Kamauni, Udaipur Khurd, Kheda Rathor, Mahuashala, Nandagawan, Baghraj Pura, Korth etc. flood water in villages. was constantly filling up. Electricity has also been cut off in the flood-affected villages.

DM Prabhu N Singh said that people are being evacuated from flood-affected villages to safer and higher places. Schools in flood-affected villages have been closed. Administration teams are camping in the area. The control room has been opened in the outside.

Rapid migration from villages

Villagers of 38 flood-affected villages are getting displaced on high dunes by migrating daily useful items including food grains, flour. Children, women and men are busy carrying goods on tractor-trolleys and ends. At the same time, the administration teams were busy in evacuating the villagers out of the village. Police including Tehsildar, Naib Tehsildar have been deployed at eight flood posts. In case of emergency, the operation of motor boat has been started.

Power cut in flood affected villages

SDO Jaitpur Manmohan Sharma said that in view of the floods, as a precautionary measure, power has been cut off in Gohra, Ranipura, Bhatpura and Gudha villages of Abhaypura feeder. The people of these villages, which are submerged in darkness, are now afraid of the attack of wildlife. Villagers told that alligators, crocodiles, snakes etc. come to the streets and houses along with the flood water.