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Flood fury: 3 lakh affected in Bengal, IMD alert for 23 MP districts

Flood fury: 3 lakh affected in Bengal, IMD alert for 23 MP districts
Army team going to evacuate local residents during the rescue operations after the flood hits in the districts of Bengal.
NEW DELHI: The flood situation in West Bengal remained critical on Thursday though there was less rainfall. In Madhya Pradesh, twelve people died and seven were injured in various rain-related incidents in flood-ravaged Gwalior and Chambal divisions.
No fresh fatality was reported from any of the seven affected districts in Bengal where around three lakh people have been shifted to rescue centres.

"The flood situation remains critical. We are monitoring it. Adequate measures have been taken and we have ensured that there is ample supply of drinking water, dry food packets and medicines," an official said.
More than 4 lakh hectares of agricultural land in these seven districts is under water now.
Heavy rain and subsequent discharge of water from dams in the last few days have inundated large parts of Purba and Paschim Bardhaman, Paschim Medinipur, Hooghly, Howrah, South 24 Parganas and Birbhum districts.
On Thursday, 24,000 cusec water was released from Maithon dam of the Damodar Valley Corporation and it is within the normal range, a DVC official said.
Meanwhile IMD sounded a fresh heavy rain alert for 23 districts of Madhya Pradesh.

The rainfall in Gwalior and Chambal divisions in north MP has now abated, rescue operations have ended and relief operations have begun, officials said. The region was being pounded by rains since Sunday. “Twelve rain-related deaths had been reported till yesterday. No death was reported today," said divisional commissioner Ashish Saxena.
As many as 30,790 people were evacuated to safer places in Gwalior and Chambal divisions and around 6,000 people were staying in 126 relief camps
Three people were rescued on Thursday in Bhind by choppers, while aircraft dropped food packets and other emergency aid material in the worst-hit Sheopur and Datia districts.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday toured the flood-affected areas of Gwalior, Datia and Shivpuri districts.
An `orange' alert forecasting `heavy to very heavy' rainfall in the districts of Rajgarh, Shajapur, Agar-Malwa, Mandsaur, Guna and Ashok Nagar have been issued. A yellow alert forecast of `heavy rain' was issued for Sheopur, Morena, Bhind, Neemuch, Shivpuri, Gwalior, Datia, Vidisha, Raisen, Sehore, Hoshangabad, Dhar, Dewas, Narsinghpur, Tikamgarh, Niwari and Sagar.
(With inputs from PTI)
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