Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann directed his ministers to visit flood-hit areas and likewise issued instructions to depute groups of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), stated official sources.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday requested his ministers to visit the flood-hit areas in the state, at the same time as rescue and reduction operations are underway in Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, and Gurdaspur districts.
Many areas in Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, and Gurdaspur districts had been inundated following the discharge of extra water from the Bhakra and Pong dams, officers stated.
The Bhakra Dam on the Sutlej River and the Pong Dam on the Beas River — each in Himachal Pradesh — are brimming after heavy rain in their respective catchment areas.
Authorities have already launched rescue and reduction operations in the flood-hit areas in these three districts and likewise stated that they had been protecting a watch on the scenario.
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Chief Minister Mann directed his ministers to visit flood-hit areas and likewise issued instructions to depute groups of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), stated official sources.
In an advisory on Monday, the Punjab authorities had requested residents of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, and Tarn Taran districts not to enterprise close to the Beas after it was determined that water from the Pong Dam could be launched.
After the water was launched from dams, it entered low-lying areas and a number of other villages, even some homes, positioned on the banks of the Beas and Sutlej rivers. Crops have additionally been submerged in a number of locations due to floodwaters, villagers stated. Many villagers have been evacuated to security, officers stated.
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Cabinet ministers Harbhajan Singh and Bram Shanker Jimpa took inventory of the scenario of flood-hit areas in Tanda Urmar in the Hoshiarpur district. Speaking to reporters, Singh stated rescue operations had been underway and that boats have been deployed to evacuate individuals to security.
He additionally stated that the general public works division and mining division had been engaged in plugging the breaches of embankments alongside the Beas River. Punjab Education Minister and Anandpur Sahib MLA Harjot Singh Bains visited flood-hit areas in the Rupnagar district and requested individuals not to panic. He stated individuals trapped in Harsa Bela and Patti Dulchi villages in Anandpur Sahib have been rescued.
He additionally appealed to individuals residing close to the banks of the Sutlej River that they need to transfer to safer locations. Bains stated the CM was himself monitoring the scenario.
Punjab has been flooded for the second time in simply over a month. Several components of Punjab had been affected by rains in the state between July 9 and July 11, which flooded huge expanses of agricultural fields and different areas, in addition to paralysing regular life.
