This story is from August 5, 2020

Two more districts hit by floods, 63 lakh affected in north Bihar

The flood-affected population in north Bihar increased by over 7 lakh in 24 hours as two more districts, Madhepura and Saharsa, were declared flood affected, taking the number of such districts to 16 in the state.
Two more districts hit by floods, 63 lakh affected in north Bihar
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PATNA: The flood-affected population in north Bihar increased by over 7 lakh in 24 hours as two more districts, Madhepura and Saharsa, were declared flood affected, taking the number of such districts to 16 in the state.
According to the disaster management department (DMD), the flood-hit population went up from 56.5 lakh on Monday to 63 lakh by Tuesday evening.
Major rivers such as Bagmati, Burhi Gandak, Kamla Balan, Khiroi and Adhwara continued to flow above the danger mark.
As per the daily flood bulletin issued by the water resources department (WRD), Bagmati was showing a rising trend at all five flood gauges in Sitamarhi district and static at one gauge in Muzaffarpur and rising at another gauge in Darbhanga.
The turbulent Burhi Gandak, however, showed either falling or static trend at all four flood gauges in Muzaffarpur, Samstipur and Khagaria districts but continued to remain above danger level at all four places. Kamla Balan also showed a static and falling trend at both flood gauges in Madhubani district but continued to flow above the danger mark.
Khiroi, one of the Adhwara channels, which has wreaked havoc in Darbhanga, showed rising trend at one flood gauge and static at another place in the district but it was flowing above danger level at both places.
The weather forecast for the next 48 hours will come as a relief as only light to moderate rainfall is expected in Bihar with exception of heavy rainfall at a few places in southern parts of the state.
Shailendra Kumar Patel, an officer at the Patna Meteorological Centre said in a statement issued on Tuesday that
monsoon activity was weak in Bihar in the past 24 hours.
“The monsoon trough line was passing through Firozpur, Rohtak, Lucknow, Varansi, Gaya, Shantiniketan, the southeastwards towards centre of a low pressure area over north Bay of Bengal. Under the influence of these two weather systems, southern and south-eastern parts of the state are likely to witness moderate rainfall. Thunderstorm along with heavy rainfall can also be witnessed at one or two places,” Patel said.
As far as flood rescue and relief work is concerned, the DMD bulletin on Tuesday stated that 4.4 lakh out of total 63.6 lakh people affected by the floods have been evacuated to safer places. Nearly 18,000 people are staying in relief camps and 9.5 lakh people are getting food at 1,365 community kitchen centres. Altogether 33 teams of NDRF and SDRF are involved in the operations.
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