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Central team to assess damages in flood-hit Darbhanga, Bhagalpur

A six-member central team reached Patna on a two-day visit on Monday for on-the-spot assessment of damages caused by floodwaters in Darbhanga and Bhagalpur districts.
Central team to assess damages in flood-hit Darbhanga, Bhagalpur
The damage was severe in seven blocks of northern Bhagalpur across the Ganga and also in Bhagalpur Sadar, Sabour, Kahalgaon, Pirpainty, Nathnagar and Jagdishpur blocks. File photo
PATNA: A six-member central team reached Patna on a two-day visit on Monday for on-the-spot assessment of damages caused by floodwaters in Darbhanga and Bhagalpur districts.
The team led by joint secretary in the Union home ministry, R K Singh, held a meeting with the state disaster management department (DMD) officials before visiting Darbhanga on Monday itself.

They would assess the damages in Bhagalpur on Tuesday, DMD sources said.
The central team will have a meeting with chief secretary Tripurari Sharan, DMD senior officials and heads of other departments before returning to Delhi on Tuesday evening.
“It will be a debriefing meeting. The central team will like to have some more information and details from the state government officials, or answers to some queries, if any,” a source said, adding that the details sought by the team are normally sent by email.
The state officials might also submit the details of the assistance sought by the government from the Centre against the damages caused by the flood this year.

The DMD has prepared a revised note on the extent of the damages since June till now, sources said.
The central team will compare the state’s report with its own assessment and then quantify the amount of central assistance to be provided by the Centre.
Incidentally, Darbhanga is still wrecked by Bagmati, which also passes through Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Samastipur and Khagaria districts and was flowing above the danger mark at most places along the downstream on Monday.
Its water level was 1.17 metre above the danger level at Benibad in Muzaffarpur and 1.14 metre at Hayaghat in Darbhanga.
Darbhanga district, which is also ravaged by the Kareh besides a few other rivers, suffered a huge damage both in the township area and also in the countryside. In the Kusheshwar Asthan block, where the floodwaters accumulate before falling into the Kosi, the bund was damaged at a few points recently.
As for Bhagalpur, its northern and southern areas suffered heavy damage on account of floodwaters from the Ganga and Kosi as well as a few small rivers.
The damage was severe in seven blocks of northern Bhagalpur across the Ganga and also in Bhagalpur Sadar, Sabour, Kahalgaon, Pirpainty, Nathnagar and Jagdishpur blocks.
The floodwaters had breached the Ismailpur-Bindtoli bund, inundating the seven blocks of north Bhagalpur, besides entering Naugachhia town.
The Kosi, notorious for causing soil erosion after the floodwaters recede, has devoured parts of a few villages like Kaharpur in Bihpur block. Moreover, NH-80 has been damaged by the floodwaters and become unmotorable at long stretches like after Sabour en route Kahalgaon.
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