The flood situation in Uttar Pradesh continues to be grim as almost all the rivers are flowing over danger mark inundating over 17 lakh hectare of agricultural land as Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani has issued warning to district magistrates of flood ravaged areas to provide relief to the people or get ready to face music.
"The officials should inspect the flood affected villages to ensure safe evacuation of the people. The DMs should send their reports to the state Government on regular basis," Chief secretary said in a review meeting here on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the swollen Ganga water has submerged several areas of Mirzapur, Varanasi and Ballia while Yamuna is flowing above the danger level at Allahabad and is almost touching the danger level in Mathura.
Altogether 240 people have lost their lives in the floods and rain-related incidents in the state so far whereas the floods have washed away standing crops in over several thousand hectares of land in 15 districts.
A report from Allahabad said the flood situation continued to be critical even as Ganga and Yamuna both have started receding. Still water was flowing almost one meter about the danger level. The UP government has rushed six flood companies of PAC to Allahabad, Mirzapur and Varanasi to meet the crisis.
A report from Ghazipur said several localities in the city are still flooded with Ganga water and efforts were on to pump out the waters. In Mirzapur too several low lying areas were inundated with Ganga waters.
A report from the Central Food control said that Ganga was flowing 3 meters above the danger level at Ballia, above 2 mts at Ghazipur and above one mt at Varanasi, Mirzapur and Allahabad. Yamuna was one meter above the danger level at Allahabad while in Mathura it was near the red mark.
Ram Ganga was near the danger lelvel at Moradabad, Sharda river was one meter above the danger level at lakhimpur Kheri, Ghagra river was near the red mark at Barabanki and Ballia. Rapti river was above the danger level at Balrampur while in Shravasti it was near the red mark. Burhi Rapti was one meter above the danger level at Sidharthanagar. Widespread rainfalls during the past 24 hours have also deteriorated the flood situation in the state.
Moradabadwitnessed a record 78.6 mm rains followed by 66 mm in Allahabad, 45.8 mm in Shravasti, 40.2 mm in Bahriach, 35.8 mm in Sitapur and 36 mm in Sant Kabir Nagar district.
Weather report predicted moderate to heavy rainfalls in entire UP during the next 48 hours.