PATIALA: Residents of a dozen villages of Anandpur Sahib division in Punjab's Ropar district have been evacuated from the low-lying areas following flooding caused by the continuous release of water from Bhakra Dam and the heavy downpour in the region. The evacuation process started after the water level had reached 5 feet in these villages.
A three-year-old girl is feared drowned in Nurpur Bedi town of the district after water from the agricultural fields flooded premises of International Public Primary School damaging its boundary wall. The incident took place at around 5am when migrant labourer working as a security guard in the school was sleeping along with his family members. The security guard identified as Mohinder managed to escape along with his wife and son but failed to pull his three-year-old daughter to safety. The girl has been identified as Sundari. The buses inside the school premises remained submerged under floodwater.
Rajesh Dhanda, an owner of a private school said, “The security guard was sleeping inside the school along with family when his 3-year-old daughter could not be rescued and she drowned. The water had entered within no time after the school’s boundary wall fell.”
So far, around three dozen villages have been affected by the floods in Ropar district and the rescue operations are under way. NDRF teams have reached in some of the low-lying villages where people have been caught amid accumulated waters.
Ropar Deputy Commissioner Sumeet Jarangal said, “A total of 20 NDRF teams are on the job in the district. The evacuation has been ordered in villages where the water level has exceeded 5 feet.”
An 80-year-old villager SP Singh was rescued by the NDRF team in Mataur village where water level exceeded over 5 feet. Two persons, including a woman, were rescued in Gajpur while a middle-aged man was rescued in Dallowal village as it witnessed water level between 4 and 5 feet. The water in these villages rose suddenly from 2 feet to 5 feet in the wee hours of Sunday following the release of water from the Bhakra Dam.
In a move to help the families in flood-hit areas, the SGPC members initiated efforts to provide immediate relief to the affected people and organized a ‘Langar’ (community kitchen) for them. The food was served to the people of the slum areas that were submerged, at local Gurudwara Sahib.
Harminder Singh Chug, a member of BBMB, after attending the full board at Nangal said it has been decided to maintain the status quo by regulating the outflow of water at the four flood gates. As of 2.30pm on Sunday, the BBMB had released 53000 cusecs while the inflow of water was varying between 1.25 lakh to 3.33 lakh cusecs. The water level in the dam was recorded at 1676.3 feet on Sunday against a danger mark of 1680 feet.
As per the prediction, Bhakra Dam will receive an average inflow of 1,16,057 cusecs in the next 24 hours which is expected to come down to 81,597 cusecs in the next 48 hours and 68,920 cusecs in the 72 hours..
A three-year-old girl is feared drowned in Nurpur Bedi town of the district after water from the agricultural fields flooded premises of International Public Primary School damaging its boundary wall. The incident took place at around 5am when migrant labourer working as a security guard in the school was sleeping along with his family members. The security guard identified as Mohinder managed to escape along with his wife and son but failed to pull his three-year-old daughter to safety. The girl has been identified as Sundari. The buses inside the school premises remained submerged under floodwater.
Rajesh Dhanda, an owner of a private school said, “The security guard was sleeping inside the school along with family when his 3-year-old daughter could not be rescued and she drowned. The water had entered within no time after the school’s boundary wall fell.”
So far, around three dozen villages have been affected by the floods in Ropar district and the rescue operations are under way. NDRF teams have reached in some of the low-lying villages where people have been caught amid accumulated waters.
Ropar Deputy Commissioner Sumeet Jarangal said, “A total of 20 NDRF teams are on the job in the district. The evacuation has been ordered in villages where the water level has exceeded 5 feet.”
An 80-year-old villager SP Singh was rescued by the NDRF team in Mataur village where water level exceeded over 5 feet. Two persons, including a woman, were rescued in Gajpur while a middle-aged man was rescued in Dallowal village as it witnessed water level between 4 and 5 feet. The water in these villages rose suddenly from 2 feet to 5 feet in the wee hours of Sunday following the release of water from the Bhakra Dam.
In a move to help the families in flood-hit areas, the SGPC members initiated efforts to provide immediate relief to the affected people and organized a ‘Langar’ (community kitchen) for them. The food was served to the people of the slum areas that were submerged, at local Gurudwara Sahib.
Harminder Singh Chug, a member of BBMB, after attending the full board at Nangal said it has been decided to maintain the status quo by regulating the outflow of water at the four flood gates. As of 2.30pm on Sunday, the BBMB had released 53000 cusecs while the inflow of water was varying between 1.25 lakh to 3.33 lakh cusecs. The water level in the dam was recorded at 1676.3 feet on Sunday against a danger mark of 1680 feet.
As per the prediction, Bhakra Dam will receive an average inflow of 1,16,057 cusecs in the next 24 hours which is expected to come down to 81,597 cusecs in the next 48 hours and 68,920 cusecs in the 72 hours..
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