Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed over 47 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) teams to work round-the-clock and ensure that the relief operations are not delayed in areas affected by floods and excessive rains.
“We are monitoring the entire flood situation. Adequate measures have been taken and we have ensured that there is ample supply of drinking water, dry food packets and medicines, clothes, utensils and bedding among others,” said Relief Commissioner Ranvir Prasad.
The 18 districts where the Yogi government is carrying out intensive flood relief operations include Agra, Auraiya, Etawah, Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Prayagraj, Mirzapur, Varanasi, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Ballia, Banda, Kasganj, Kaushambi, Bhadohi, Chandauli, Ghazipur and Sitapur. The government has also established around 964 relief shelters.
“The government is leaving no stone unturned to mitigate the impact of floods and send relief materials to the marooned people in 1,111 flood-affected villages spread across 18 districts of the state,” Prasad said.
The UP government has deployed around 1,936 boats and 677 medical teams while 1,524 flood posts and 702 animal relief camps have also been set up. Besides, 108 motorboats and 50 vehicles have been pressed into service to conduct search operations. In the animal camps, vaccination of more than 9,57,952 animals has been done.
More than 14,166 dry ration kits and 1,36,255 lunch packets have been distributed by the government to the affected people so far.
The state government has also distributed around 58,497 ORS packets and more than 1,87,280 chlorine tablets in the affected areas. Teams of NDRF and SDRF have evacuated 21,153 people from flood-affected areas and shifted them to relief camps, the commissioner said.