Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath carried out an aerial survey of the flood-affected Sahjanwa area of Gorakhpur district and asked officials of the Irrigation department to ensure that all bundhs and piers were intact.
“There should not be any breach in the bundhs and if required the piers should be repaired so that in case of flooding the water does not enter the villages,” Yogi said after the aerial survey on Sunday morning.
Addressing officials at the Circuit House, the chief minister said that flood relief should be extended to the affected people immediately and flood chowkis and flood relief centres should be identified and preparations should start there immediately.
The chief minister also reviewed the progress of the fertiliser factory and the four-lane road being constructed in the district.
Later, Yogi Adityanath inspected the construction work of the AIIMS at Gorakhpur and the preparations for setting up Level-2 Covid ward in the Lalit Memorial Railway Hospital in Gorakhpur.
He was informed by the officials that in the first phase, a 50-bed Covid hospital would come up at AIIMS, Gorakhpur.
The chief minister, who reached Gorakhpur on Saturday evening from Ayodhya, reviewed the coronavirus prevention programme in the district at night. He asked officials to provide all possible help to the patients.
“Set up Covid help desk at all the important places so that screening of people can be carried out effectively,” he said.
On Sunday morning, the chief minister attended the Janata Darbar at Gorakshnath temple after praying at the temple and went around the premises.
Later he left for Ballia to review the arrangements at