This story is from July 28, 2020

Floods hit over 1L people in Darbhanga

Floods hit over 1L people in Darbhanga
DARBHANGA/KHAGARIA/SITAMARHI/BAGAHA: With most rivers flowing above the danger level, lakhs of people continued to face flood fury across 11 districts in north Bihar.
In Darbhanga, around 1.2 lakh people in 502 villages spread across 154 panchayats have been affected. According to the disaster management department, 387 community kitchens are being run to feed around 1.3 lakh people even as 1,780 food packets were airdropped by an Indian Air Force chopper for the third consecutive day on Monday.
DM Thyagraja SM inspected the relief operation in Bahadurpur block on Monday.
In Khagaria, around 74,000 people in 90 villages across 32 panchayats have been affected by floodwaters of Kosi, Bagmati and other turbulent rivers of the area. Flood waters overtopped a number of roads at several places disrupting traffic in the area.
According to official sources, floodwaters entered at least 196 houses where relief materials, including ‘chura (flattered rice)’,sugar, readymade food packets besides a polyethene sheet were distributed among the flood victims.
The floodwaters from the Ganga spread to more low-lying areas of over a dozen villages under Parbatta block pressing the panic button for the locals. Parbatta CO Chandrashekhar Prasad Singh, however, said situation was well under control as flood waters have not entered the houses as yet.
DM Alok Ranjan Ghosh said constant vigil was being kept on the different vulnerable points of major embankments.
In Sitamarhi district, people heaved a sigh of relief with the fall in the intensity of rainfall in the past 36 hours. Only \Bagmati is still rising near Dheng but the embankments are safe.

Rivers such as Lalbakeya, Jhim, Marar, Marha, the Adhawara group, Rato and Lakhadei are slowly receding, but still flowing above the danger mark. Road connectivity has still not been restored between Sitamarhi-Sursand, Sitamarhi-Parihar, Sitamarhi-Sheohar, Lagma-Bhasepur and Singrahia-Baduri.
In West Champaran, large swathes of land continued to remain submerged in Majhaulia block. District Magistrate Kundan Kumar along with SDM Bettiah Vidyanath Pasawan and other officials visited Champaran embankment under Nautan block ,where around 600 flood victims of Sheorajpur and Bhagavanpur panchayats were taking shelter after being evacuated from flood affected areas.
The DM said around 1,000 flood victims were being provided meal at community kitchen from last three days and health camps have also been set up for ailing flood victims. The DM also made an appeal to people in flood prone areas to remain on alert as 150 mm rain was reported at Pokharia in Nepal in last 24 hours. Gandak river may surge further and more water may be released from Valmikinagar barrage.
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