Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath inspects Kashi’s flood-affected areas, assures all help to residents

VARANASI: Assuring the flood-affected people that his government is committed to extending all possible help, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday asked the district officials not to let any stone unturned in ensuring the relief required for the people stranded in marooned areas or shifted to safer places.
The CM on Thursday afternoon took stock of the flood caused by the Ganga and its tributary Varuna by a NDRF boat, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma and BJP city chief Vidyasagar Rai to know the ground realities of the flood situation, rescue and relief operations.

While interacting with the people staying in a flood relief camp at Alia Garden in Saraiyya and also at JP Mehta Inter College flood relief camp, the CM asked about their health condition and arrangements made by the local administration. The CM asked them not to be worried as the government was standing with them to ensure all possible help.
He also sought details of the arrangements made for flood-affected people from the officials.
The CM distributed relief material including ration kits and vegetable bags among 37 families that have taken shelter at JP Mehta Inter College. On noticing an elderly woman standing in queue for collecting relief material, the CM asked her how she would take the kit as it was heavy.

A boy accompanying the elderly woman came forward to carry the kit. After it, the CM also took stock of the shelter created for the cattle and other dairy animals.

Earlier, the CM along with UP ministers Neelkanth Tiwari, Ravindra Jaiswal, divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal, commissioner of police A Satish Ganesh and district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma boarded the NDRF boat at Rajghat for the inspection of the flood-affected areas. The CM’s fleet of boats entered the tributary Varuna and reached up to Puranapul.
Viewing the flood menace in both the rivers, the CM inquired about each and every arrangement made by the administration to rescue the people and relief work done so far.
The CM also flagged off teams engaged for carrying out special fogging drives in the flood-hit and adjacent areas. A total of three big and 20 portable machines left for the areas assigned after it.