Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath carried out an aerial survey of the flood-affected regions of Etawah and Auraiya and directed the officials to ensure that no life was lost due to rain-related incidents and that help reached the affected people at the earliest.
Yogi carried out an aerial survey of 24 flood-affected villages of Auraiya and 28 villages of Etawah districts. During a meeting with the officials of the two districts, he ordered that National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams be deployed in the flood-hit areas.
He said that the state government had deployed around 1,133 boats and 409 medical teams while 828 flood relief camps, 976 flood posts and 360 animal relief camps had been set up. Along with this over 39 teams, including those of the NDRF, SDRF and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) had been deployed to tackle the floods.
He said in the relief camps facilities like drinking water, toilets, clothes, utensils and bedding among others should be provided. “Covid protocol should also be followed in these shelters,” he added.
According to the Irrigation department, there has been an increase in the water levels of rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Betwa, Sharda , Kuwano and Chambal. At present 247 villages of 15 districts are affected by floods in the state. Etawah, Hamirpur and Jalaun are highly vulnerable districts in terms of flooding and more than 60 villages are affected by floods in each of these districts.
The chief minister has directed district magistrates and district police chiefs to visit sensitive spots in these affected areas.
The Chambal river in Etawah rose by 1 metre till Sunday night. At present, the Chambal river is flowing above the danger mark due to which more than 60 villages have been affected by floods. Not only this, the water of the Yamuna is also rising dangerously here.
According to Prem Kamal, site in charge of the Central Water Commission, the water level of Yamuna was at 121.72 metre on Sunday morning and it reached 121.79 metre late on Sunday night.
Over 7,015 dry ration kits have been distributed by the government so far, while 1,230 people have been distributed dry ration kits in the last 24 hours. The state government has distributed 28,028 lunch packets to the affected people till now. In the last 24 hours itself, 7,491 lunch packets have been distributed.
Besides, about 12 animal camps have been set up for protection of marooned animals and their owners in the last 24 hours. Till now, the government has set up around 360 such camps wherein, vaccination of more than 7,24,329 cattle heads has been done.