1 South West Monsoon AFFECTED STATES
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SITUATION REPORT (13 August 2007) South West Monsoon As per IMD report, yesterday’s monsoon low-pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal off north Orissa-West Bengal Coast has developed into a well-marked low-pressure area. It is likely to concentrate into a depression during next 24 hours (13th August). Under its influence, widespread rainfall is likely to occur over Orissa and coastal areas of West Bengal during next 48 hours (13th & 14th August). Widespread rainfall is also likely over remaining parts of West Bengal & Sikkim, Jharkhand, Bihar, East Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh during same period. The rainfall activity is likely to increase further over Bihar and East Uttar Pradesh after 48 hours (13th & 14th August). Today Weather Update: Scattered heavy to very heavy falls and isolated extremely heavy falls are likely over Orissa, Jharkhand and Gangetic West Bengal during next 24 hours and isolated heavy to very heavy falls thereafter. Isolated heavy to very heavy falls are likely over Bihar and East Uttar Pradesh during next 24 hrs. and scattered heavy to very heavy falls with isolated extremely heavy falls thereafter. Isolated heavy to very heavy falls are likely over Western Himalayan Region, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim and Chhattisgarh. The following table shows the level of water in rivers and dams. 9 rivers are flowing at danger levels with a moderate flooding trend and rest of the 13 rivers is flowing in a low flooding trend. River Inflow Flood District State Trend Forecast Flow Trends of Dams & River touching Moderated Flood situation Kosi Baltara Khagharia Bihar Steady Bagmati Benibad Muzaffarpur Bihar Steady Adhwara Group Ekmighat Darbhanga Bihar Falling Ganga Farakka Murshidabad West Bengal Falling Bagmati Hayaghat Dharbhanga Bihar Falling Kosi Kursela Katihar Bihar Falling Burhi Gandak Rosera Samastipur Bihar Falling Burhi Gandak Samastipur Samastipur Bihar Falling Low Flood Situation Ghaghra Ayodhya Faizabad Uttar Pradesh Rising Kosi Basua Supaul Bihar Rising Ganga Colgong/ Kahalgaon Bhagalpur Bihar Falling Ghaghra Darauli Siwan Bihar Steady Ghaghra Elgin Bridge Barabanki Uttar Pradesh Rising Gorakhpur Rapti Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh Falling (Birdghat) Kamla Balan Jhanjharpur Madhubani Bihar Rising Adhwara Group Kamtaul Darbhanga Bihar Falling Ganga Khadda Kushinagar Uttar Pradesh Falling Burhi Gandak Khagaria Khagharia Bihar Falling Burhi Gandak Muzaffarpur Sikandarpur Bihar Falling Puthimari Puthimari (NTX) Kamrup Assam Falling Ghaghra Turtipar Ballia Uttar Pradesh Steady Dams where the Full reservoir level is not exceeded Hirakud Dam Mahanadi Sambalpur Orissa Fall AFFECTED STATES • Bihar: 19 Districts of Bihar affected due floods since the 1st week of August. Approximately 14,363,000 people have been affected in 186 blocks, 1874 Panchayats, 7254 villages in districts of Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Saharsa, Patna, Bhagalpur, East Champaran, Darbhanga, Supaul, West Champaran, Katihar, Madhubani, Samastipur, Sheohar, Naland, Khagaria, Gopalganj, Madhepura, Araria, Begusarai. It has been estimated that 1.191 million Ha of crop area has been damaged while the estimated value of damaged crop is 26.307 million INR. The damaged houses 1 SITUATION REPORT (13 August 2007) are 125459 [fully (42,080)] and partially (85,174)] and estimated to be about 98.153 million INR. The damage incurred to public properties has been valued at 43.30 million INR • Uttar Pradesh: The river flow has started to recede from most of the affected districts, and about 2201 villages in 22 districts with population of 1.718 million have been affected. The worst affected districts are Gorakhpur, Shravasti, Bhraich, Maharajgnaj, Bairampur, Basti, Gonda, Mau, Balia, Devria, Azamgarh and Barabanki. • Maharashtra: In Amravati sub-division area, 51 villages in 8 blocks with population of 4,861 were affected as several houses were submerged in the low-lying areas of the blocks. Certain sections of the State Highways were reported to be submerged under water causing disruption in vehicular movement. • Gujarat: Districts of Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagarh, Porbandar, Surender Nagar and Amreli were reported to have been affected as the villages in the low lying areas of the districts were marooned with rainwater. 688,000 people have been affected. The water level in Narmada dam was reported to be within full reservoir capacity. While dams in the state are on alert of warning levels. Sections of 17 state and 184 Panchayat roads were damaged due to fresh spell of rains. • Assam: the overall flood situation is improving with waters level of all rivers receding below danger levels 5946 villages in 26 districts have been affected with a population of 6,748,165 in Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Nalibari, Dhurbi, Goalpara, Kampru, Bongaigaon, Morigaon, Jorhat, Nagaon, Sivasagar, Darrang, Sonitpur. Damage to 69 dyke’s embankments and 968 PWD roads and 539 semi-permanent timber bridges have been reported, and land erosion continues in the districts of Barpeta, Nalbair, Bogaigaon, Dhubri and water logging persists in low lying areas of the affected districts. • Karnataka: Due to heavy rains, low lying villages and houses were submerged in the districts of Belgaum and Baglkot, as river Krishna was flowing above the flood warning levels. In Belgaum 14 bridges and 6 roads were submerged under water. The vehicular movement has been temporally suspended in these areas till the water recedes. In 18 districts 10412 villages with a population of 945,000 have been affected. • Kerala: 9 districts with a population of 172,000 have been affected due to rains in the northern parts of the state. • Orissa: Incessant rains over southern districts triggered by the low pressure (11th August) over Bay of Bengal lashed several parts of Rayagada, Gajapati and Kalahandi. In Rayagada Landslide has been reported in Sunakhandi Panchayat of Kalyansinghpur Block. Another landslide on the railway tracks in Sikarpai Panchayat disrupted the rail communication and the Hirakhand train has been halted. Road communication has been disrupted at some of the places in Muniguda block due to overflowing of rivers, but as per the latest reports received, water has started to recede. In Kalahandi all the 13 blocks of the districts were affected due to the heavy rains on 11th August. Major rivers like Tel and Hati are receding and situation is improving. Damages were mostly to the public utility. In Gajapati: Around 5000 population of Kashinagar block was affected by the flash floods in Vanshadhara River. • Reported Deaths: The total number of deaths since June of this year 1752 people lost their lives. During the last 48 hrs Bihar had 32 deaths reported but the provisional reported deaths is 180, in Uttar Pradesh 176 deaths reported; in Gujarat 29 deaths reported due to drowning and 8 persons missing; In Orissa 13 people died due to epidemic reported from 2 PHCs (Tikiri and Kashipur) in Kashipur Block. ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES: • Relief camps opened by the state government: In Bihar 1037 relief camps are operational; in Assam 128,606 persons have been accommodated in 669 relief camps and 282 temporary relief shelters are accommodating about 332,412 people while 9 camps continues in Dhemaji and Bongaigon and 1000 homeless families have been accommodated in temporary shelters on dykes and high places in Dhemaji district; in Uttar Pradesh 120,000 people have been accommodated in 250 relief camps.; in Andhra Pradesh 14 relief camps have been operational to accommodate 6,650 people; in Karnataka 133 relief camps have been setup to house 12,000 people ; in Kerala 36 relief camps have accommodated 2089 people; in Gujarat 13 relief camps have been set up and accommodating 4000 people; in Karnataka 156 relief camps continue to 2 SITUATION REPORT (13 August 2007) operate and accommodate 312,000 people; in Kerala 83 relief camps continue to operate and accommodate 4130 people. • Assistance from Defence, Govt of India, army columns of Engineer Task force has been deployed in Assam; in Uttar Pradesh (Barabanki, Gorakhpur, Maharajganj districts); in Bihar, the teams has been deployed in Samastipur, and Begusarai for rescue operations; in Uttar Pradesh one team is deployed in Gorakhpur; in Kerala teams have been deployed in Kozikode, Alappusha, Idukki, Wayanad and Malappuram; in Gujarat teams have deployed from Gandhinagar and Rajkot. The India Air Force has supported Bihar government in airlifting 21.7 tonnes of food items to the affected districts. • Evacuation Operation: In Bihar 105814 people have been evacuated to safer places, in Uttar Pradesh 162,200 people have been evacuated; in Gujarat 16565 people have been evacuated to safer places; in Assam 40,000 people have been evacuated from Dhemaji ; in Orissa Early warning was issued and people were shifted and housed in a school in Kashinagar. Free kitchen was run for two days and now with the receding of water, situation is improving and people have started moving back to their houses; in Bhadrak District administration is on alert and the sub collector is camping at Dhamnagar to monitor the situation and other concerned govt. officers are instructed to keep a close watch on the situation; in Jajpur Dtrict administration is keeping a close vigil on the situation especially in Korei, Dasrathipur, Jajpur, Bari and Danagadi block as habitation in these blocks is likely to be affected with further rise in the water level of Baitarani river system. ODRAFs with officers from OSDMA have been deployed to Bhadrak and Jajpur. • Medical teams: In Bihar, 428 medical teams have