Army called in as 5,000 acres flooded in Mansa. The imminence of further inundation has compelled villagers to move to safer places, with their belongings and livestock etc on tractor-trailers. However, the poor lack the means to go anywhere.
Mansa: Around 5,000 acres in Mansa district are submerged in floodwaters following two breaches that occurred on Saturrday, July 15, in the Ghaggar at Rorke village in Sardulgarh and Chandpura bundh in Budhladha, a special report by Sukhmeet Bhasin in the Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
Even after 24 hours, the breach at Chandpura bundh has not been plugged and which had increased from 100 feet on Saturday to more than 250 feet on Sunday owing to heavy flow of floodwater.
Even the level of the Ghaggar has increased and fear of its overflow looms. The Army has been called in and its teams have already initiated repair work.
Mansa Deputy Commissioner Dr Rishipal Singh says over 5,000 acres have been submerged in floodwaters and the Army has been called in to repair the breaches.
The water level in the river has increased, but there is no need to panic as the administration is on the job, he says.
On Sunday, floodwaters entered fields at Gorakhnath, Chak Ali Sher and Birewala Dogra villages. Villagers said the water threatened to inundate Riund Kalan, Riund Khurd, Gantu Kalan, Gantu Khurd, Gamiwala, Talwala, Bahmanwala villages in the district.
The imminence of further inundation has compelled villagers to move to safer places, with their belongings and livestock etc on tractor-trailers. However, the poor lack the means to go anywhere.
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The Army has been deployed in the area between Kulariyan village and Chandpura dam and is busy keeping boats on standby, seeing the possibility of further flooding. with possible flooding. Farmers say crops on hundreds of acres have been destroyed.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Dr Balbir Singh today met members of the local chapter of the Indian Medical Association and government officials, and directed them to ensure there was no shortage of medicines and medical staff in the flood-affected areas.
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