With the aim to check water-borne diseases as well as provide relief to the people in the flood-hit regions, the Uttar Pradesh government is making elaborate arrangements to minimise the damage in the inundated parts of the state.
Ensuring that no eligible beneficiary is deprived of assistance, the official machinery is on high alert and is taking all the required relief and rehabilitation measures in the rain-affected areas. Aiming to improve the situation in 655 flood-affected villages in 14 districts of the state, the government has established around 1,134 relief shelters.
Giving this information here on Monday evening, a government spokesman said that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and disaster management teams deployed in the flood-hit areas had been instructed to work round-the-clock in an active mode. He said relief operations would not be delayed in areas affected by floods and excess rain.
Stepping up the relief measures, the UP government has deployed around 6,425 boats and 1,178 medical teams while 1,327 flood posts and 1,676 animal relief camps have been set up. In the animal camps, vaccination of more than 8,03,975 animals has been done. As many as 451 motorboats and 208 vehicles are also engaged in search operations.
“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 for the flood-hit while adhering to Covid protocol,” said Relief Commissioner Ranveer Prasad.
Over 64 teams, including those of NDRF, SDRF and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) have been deployed in 40 districts of the state to tackle the floods. These teams are working round-the-clock to mitigate the impact of floods in affected villages. Teams of NDRF and SDRF have evacuated 49,101 people from flood-affected areas and shifted them to relief camps.
More than 2,46,162 dry ration kits have been distributed by the government so far, while around 44,147 people have been provided with dry ration kits in the last 24 hours. The state government has distributed as many as 5,48,128 lunch packets to the affected people so far.
The nodal officers appointed in every district of the state are monitoring the relief work in the areas affected by floods and heavy rains. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also instructed the officials to ensure the supply of pure drinking water and to distribute chlorine tablets in the flood-affected districts. Till now, the state government has distributed around 2,15,293 ORS packets and more than 24,86,103 tablets of chlorine in the flood-hit regions.
Health teams have been directed to spray anti-larva chemicals such as Pyrethrin and undertake extensive fogging and cleanliness drives in the areas where more than one dengue patient is found. People have also been advised to take precautionary measures to check the breeding of mosquitoes in and around their houses. Prevention activities to curb breeding of pests and other insects are being conducted regularly in rural and urban areas as per the prescribed guidelines.
Special sanitisation drives have also been launched across the state to curb the threat of water-borne diseases by the Panchayati Raj and Urban Development department, nagar panchayats, gram sabhas, municipalities and municipal corporations.