Several rivers, including the Ganga and the Yamuna, are in spate owing to rainfall in Uttar Pradesh and the higher catchment regions, and more than 300 villages in 13 Uttar Pradesh districts have been impacted by flooding. According to statistics from the Relief Commissioner Office, four individuals have perished in rain-related accidents across the state in the previous 24 hours.
According to the statistics, the floods have had an impact on up to 331 villages in the districts of Aligarh, Bijnor, Budaun, Farrukhabad, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Kasganj, Mathura, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Shahjahanpur, and Shamli. According to the report, 61 shelters have been put up for the 25,281 impacted individuals.
In the last 24 hours, four deaths in the state were caused by the rain. According to the Relief Commissioner’s Office, one person died from a snakebite and three individuals perished in flooding.
At the Kachla bridge in Budaun and Fatehgarh in Farrukhabad, the Ganga river is reportedly running over the danger level. In Narora, Bulandshahr, it has reached a level that is quite close to the red mark.
At Mavi in Muzaffarnagar and Prayag Ghat in Mathura, the Yamuna river is flowing dangerously close to the danger level. According to reports, the Sharda River is also running close to the danger level at Palia Kalan in Lakhimpur Kheri.
According to authorities, more than 50 people were evacuated on Sunday from the flooded hamlet of Karhera in Ghaziabad, which is situated on the banks of the Hindon, a river that is a tributary of the Yamuna.
Residents of the hamlet, where more than 8 feet of water has collected, were moved using motorboats by a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team and the Sahibabad police, according to them.
According to Sahibabad’s Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Bhaskar Verma, some people have been relocated to safer areas while others have moved into the homes of their relatives. In the community, a school has been converted into a relief camp. Gen. (ret.) V K Singh, a Ghaziabad MP and Union minister, gave the order to provide rations to flood victims.
The embankment next to the city forest has been damaged by the Hindon river. The surrounding colonies and the majority of the forest have been drowned. The City Park has likewise been shut down by the municipal government.
On Friday night, people of the villages of Ataur Nangla and Noor Nagar, which are inside the boundaries of the Nandgram police station, were also saved by the NDRF. Other animals, including cattle, have also been saved.
After a rise in the Hathnikund Barrage’s discharge into the river as a result of heavy rain in certain areas of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, the Yamuna in Delhi again crossed the danger threshold of 205.33 meters on Sunday.