Ganga continues to show receding trend in Bihar

PATNA: The state water resources department (WRD) on Sunday heaved a sigh of relief as contrary to forecasts, no moderate or heavy rainfall occurred in the catchment areas of the north Bihar rivers in Nepal and Bihar.
“The water discharge through the Birpur barrage across Kosi was 1.83 lakh cusecs on Sunday afternoon and 1.47 lakh cusecs through Valmiki Nagar barrage across Gandak. It is normal for monsoon season. Only light and scattered rainfall is occurring in Nepal,” a WRD official said.
“According to the revised IMD forecast, moderate to heavy rainfall would occur only in a few districts in the state,” the WRD official said.
Meanwhile, the Ganga was flowing below the danger level at Digha and Gandhi Ghat in Patna and also at Munger on Sunday. However, it was flowing 63cm above the danger mark at Hathidah, 30cm at Bhagalpur, 1.20 metres at Kahalgaon, and 1.54 metres at Farakka.
Reports from flood-hit Amdabad and Manihari blocks of south Katihar district on the north of the river said the floodwaters have slowly started receding. The water level in the Mahananda river was also falling.
Meanwhile, WRD minister Sanjay Kumar Jha on Sunday visited Darbhanga and inspected the soil erosion being caused by the Bagmati river in the Ratnopatti locality of the town. He said a technical team would assess the situation after the floodwaters recede, following which the work on preventing the soil erosion in the Ratnopatti locality of Darbhanga town will also be undertaken.