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Central team in flood-hit areas
A THREE-MEMBER Central team today visited the flood-affected areas (of August 13/14) on Friday, reviewed the situation and also held discussions with the administrative officials to get a clear picture of the losses that were incurred. District Collector S K Mishra presented a loss estimate of Rs 75.72 crore to the team.
A THREE-MEMBER Central team today visited the flood-affected areas (of August 13/14) on Friday, reviewed the situation and also held discussions with the administrative officials to get a clear picture of the losses that were incurred. District Collector S K Mishra presented a loss estimate of Rs 75.72 crore to the team.
With heavy rains once again lashing the City during the last 24 hours, causing water-logging in several low-lying localities, the officials were witness to almost similar situation that prevailed during the devastating flood a fortnight ago.
The team included joint secretary (Home) Dinesh Kumar Singh, deputy advisor to the Planning Commission Anivash Mishra and Regional officer of the Central Relief Department, Indresh Pandey.
The team visited the worst-affected areas like the Mahamai ka Bagh, Indira Nagar, Dwarka Nagar, Tila Jamalpura, Gautam Nagar, Naya Basera and others, interacted with the citizens and took stock of the losses. Collector Mishra and other officials accompanied them.
Later, they held detailed discussions with the district administration officials and took details of the losses. They also watched a documentary prepared by the administration.
Giving details, the Collector said that the normal life in district including the capital City was totally disrupted by the 225 mm of rains in six hours on night intervening August 13 and 14. A total 507 villages and 207 localities in 60 wards of the City were badly affected. A total of 24 persons were killed and 3907 cattle perished. The heavy rains led to total damage of 9098 houses and Kharif crops on 8960 hectares.
Giving the department-wise breakup of the losses, the Collector said that the losses incurred by the PWD were about Rs 20.14 crore, BDA – Rs 3.96 crore, Zila Panchayat – Rs 2 crore, Capital Project – Rs 1.98 crore, Housing Board – Rs 1.05 crore, BMC – Rs 26.55 crore and agriculture department – Rs 12.79 crore.
The team also took details from senior officials other than the district Collector. They were informed that financial assistance had been provided to 38,313 out of 57,335 affected families.
The Central team members assured early relief from the Central Government.
A month’s rain on a single day!
RAIN GODS this year seem to have decided to really drench the city in a never-before manner. On the very first day of September, the rainfall figure for city has touched almost the average figure for the entire month. Given the trend of rains this year, certainly more could be expected.
About 230 mm of rains is expected in Bhopal during the entire month of September. By 8.30 am on September 1, the capital (official figure recorded at Airport at Bairagarh) had recorded 214.5 mm of rains, just short of the month’s average.
Another 14.1 mm of rains were recorded between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm on Friday. During 24 hours, the city recorded around 180 mm of rains while between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm on Friday 9.0 mm was recorded. Almost sixty years ago- on September 2, 1947, almost the average monthly rain of 23 cm was reported within 24 hours, which is an all time high record.
With rains of last several hours, the seasonal total in capital has gone up to 1508.3 mm, 619.4 mm more than the normal expected till this time of the year. The normal average rainfall for a monsoon season in capital is 1152 mm and the rain recorded till now is as much 356.3 mm more than the entire season’s total.
During August, all records had been broken in city with three times of the monthly average rain being recorded. Also the
highest ever rains in 24 hours for month of August was recorded on August 13/14.
