Take special care of pregnant women & elderly people: CM

PATNA/BHAGALPUR: CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday conducted an aerial survey of flood-affected areas in Bhagalpur, Begusarai and Khagaria districts. He also inspected the flood relief camps at Ramdhari High School at Pakra and the Makanpur High School in Naugachia subdivision of Bhagalpur and Bharatkhand High School in Parbatta block of Khagaria besides a community kitchen in Matihani block of Begusarai district.He also interacted with people at the relief camps.
Nitish told the officials that there should be no slackness in flood relief operations. He also directed the civil administration and health department officials to take special care of pregnant women, elderly and children affected by the floods.
The CM asked Bhagalpur DM Subrat Kumar Sen to increase the number of relief camps in his district. “I saw that a large number of people have been affected by the floods. As per the requirements, increase the number of relief camps in the district so that the flood-affected people do not face any difficulty,” Nitish told the Bhagalpur DM.
On his return to Patna, Nitish said many areas have been affected by the floods and several relief camps were opened in the affected areas. “I spoke to many persons at relief camps and issued necessary instructions to the officials concerned,” Nitish told reporters at Patna airport.
Nitish also said though the Ganga water level was decreasing, people who faced damages due to the floodwaters would be provided necessary relief and help. He said though the highest water level in the Ganga this year was slightly lower than in 2016, the floodwaters caused damages at several places like in 2016.
The flood situation in Bhagalpur has been grim as hundreds of villages in majority of the panchayats in Naugachia, Bihpur, Gopalpur, Kahalgaon, Sabour, Sultanganj, Akbarnagar and other blocks in the district have been flooded for a week.
Classes at several government primary and secondary schools under Naugachia, Ismailpur, Nathnagar, Gopalpur, Sabour and Kahalgaon have been disrupted following inundation of the school premises. Some schools in the city areas besides the Bhagalpur Engineering College, IIIT Bhagalpur at Sabour, Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University campus are facing waterlogging after the floodwater entered the premises.