CM to visit flood hit areas of Hamirpur, Jalaun today

Jhansi: UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Hamirpur and Jalaun district on Tuesday to inspect the flood hit villages of both the districts and to supervise the relief work. He will be reaching after attending the virtual inauguration programme of Ujjwala 2 by PM Narendra Modi in Mahoba.
Meanwhile hundreds of villages of both the districts have been effected due to flood with many of them severely.Some of the villages have been even cut from all directions leaving scarcity of food and other essential commodities.
Food and other relief materials were air dropped to many villages of Jalaun district by the local authorities with the help of army helicopter. DM Jalaun, Priyanka Niranjan also visited many such villages assuring adequate help.
Talking to TOI, Commissioner Jhansi division, Ajay Shankar Pandey informed that 72 villages of Jalaun district have been affected of which around two dozen are severe in nature. NDRF and Army have also been deployed for rescue operation.
“We are supplying cooked food as well as dry ration. Apart from this medical teams are being sent to island villages for medical help. We are trying to evacuate the people though many of them are reluctant to leave their place”, Commissioner Pandey said.