12:12 August 01
Nearly 100 affected in Khagaria due to floods
The flood situation in Khagaria, Bihar is getting worse with each passing day as the flood water levels keep rising. The number of flood-affected people has reached 100.
Explaining their problem to ETV Bharat, a flood victim said that every year a part of their life, they live like this (in flooded areas)."We do not know how many days we will have to stay in this small plastic tent," a victim whose house was submerged rued.
12:10 August 01
Gandak River water damages embankment, adds on to flood woes
Following the floods, an embankment broke in Gopalganj due to which Gandak river water has started rapidly flowing through Masrakh, entering dozens of villages of Amanour block, flooding the area.
Along the way, many canals were damaged too, inundating all the villages falling on the way.
The government and administration are absent from the flood-hit areas and no rescue work has been initiated, said flood-victims.
11:48 August 01
40-50 Rati Bhagwanpur villages flooded, no help yet from administration
The main road connecting Vaishali Chandni Chowk to many villages including Hussainpur village is now flooded with the water seeping into houses. According to the victims, so far, no government official has come to take cognisance of the situation.
The increasing water level has caused a frenzy among the villagers.
09:46 August 01
Tejashwi Yadav slams Nitish government
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, who toured flood-hit parts of East Champaran, expressed bewilderment over "only 19 relief camps" having been set up by the Nitish Kumar government so far.
"The states water resources minister is busy gathering resources for the ruling JD(U) ahead of assembly polls. Nobody has seen the states minister for disaster management in the past four months when the state has been hit by crisis after crisis.
"And the Chief Minister has not stepped out of his residence for 135 days. The people are left to despair", Yadav tweeted.
07:54 August 01
Floodwaters wash away bridge in Chapra
Heavy floods in Chapra has washed away a bridge which has disrupted vehicular movement in the area. The destruction of bridge in Chapra's Saran district has restricted the movement of people. The bridge connected Chapra to Patna. The river in North Bihar are showing a rising trend and have crossed all the danger mark. People of the area have appealed to the district administration to start the repair and construction of the broken bridge at the earliest.
07:41 August 01
Floods wreak havoc in Khagaria, more than 100 people displaced
Floods have wreaked havoc in Khagaria and swollen rivers in North Bihar have displaced more than 100 people in the district. Floodwaters have entered houses, schools and have destroyed huge crops and livestock. People have taken shelter in small camps and panic has gripped the area. Electricity supply to several areas was snapped as floodwaters of Bagmati and Kosi river entered a number of riverine villages in Khagaria district. People have claimed that they have not received any help from the state government.
It was after the intervention of ETV Bharat that Alok Ranjan Ghosh, District Magistrate, toured the flood-hit areas and instructed the concerned officials to provide necessary relief to the marooned people.
06:24 August 01
Water level steadily increasing in flood-hit areas of Bihar, victims claim admin missing
Patna: Flood situation remained grim in Bihar where swollen rivers originating in Nepal and flowing through the states northern districts have affected more than
45 lakh people so far, the disaster management department said on Friday.
No loss of life was reported on account of floods in the last 24 hours, causing the death toll to remain stable at 11, though the number of people troubled by the calamity grew by more than half a million during the period, according to the bulletin issued by the department.
The number of distressed people, across 1012 panchayats of 14 districts, has reached 45.39 lakh, compared with the previous days figure of 39.63 lakh, said the department.
The state's response to floods has triggered wordy duel between rival parties, keeping in view the approaching assembly election.
Leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav, who toured flood-hit parts of East Champaran, expressed bewilderment over "only 19 relief camps" having been set up by the Nitish Kumar government so far.
"The states water resources minister is busy gathering resources for the ruling JD(U) ahead of assembly polls. Nobody has seen the states minister for disaster management in the past four months when the state has been hit by crisis after crisis.
"And the Chief Minister has not stepped out of his residence for 135 days. The people are left to despair", Yadav tweeted.
He was lambasted by the ruling JD(U)-BJP combine which charged the RJD leader with trying to gain publicity by his tours instead of extending cooperation to the state government in its flood control measures. According to the disaster management department, 3.76 lakh people have so far been evacuated from flood-ravaged localities out of whom 26,732 have taken shelter at the relief camps.
Besides, 1193 community kitchens are catering to 7.71 lakh people in the inundated areas. Relief and rescue operations were being carried out by
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF).
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"Our 21 teams are deployed across 12 of the flood- affected districts. Our personnel have so far rescued more than 8600 people", said Vijay Sinha, commandant of 9th battalion of NDRF, stationed at Bihta in Patna district.
"Saving lives and beyond is our motto and we pay special attention to vulnerable populace like children, the elderly and pregnant women," he added.
Sinha highlighted the case of a young woman from Darbhanga, who went into labour late Thursday night and could get timely medical care because of timely response to her families distress call. Our men picked her up from her marooned village and carried her to the nearest primary health center, which was 10 kms away, the NDRF commandant said.
The districts hit by the floods are West Champaran, East Champaran, Saran, Gopalganj, Siwan, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Khagaria, Samastipur, Kishanganj, Supaul and Sheohar. Only West Champaran (four) and Darbhanga (seven) have reported flood-related deaths.
East Central Railway zone Chief Public Relation Officer, Rajesh Kumar, said that with floodwaters flowing above danger level near three Railway bridges in the Samastipur-Darbhangasection, routes of some special trains have been diverted, while services of some others stopped for the time being.
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