| NGO demands proper relief for flood victims |
By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, July 24: The NGO Brothers has alleged corruption in the distribution of relief items to people affected by flood in the State this year. General secretary of the NGO, Dibyajyoti Saikia said, “Members of our NGO had visited flood-affected areas in Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Kaziranga recently. There is widespread corruption going on in the name of distribution of relief items to flood victims. Fake lists of villages and flood victims are being made. State Water Resources minister Rajiv Lochan Pegu had visited only a few flood-affected areas in Lakhimpur recently. He saw the pitiable condition in which the flood victims are living. But why has he not taken any measures for proper relief and rehabilitation of these people?” The NGO has demanded that the State Government should issue strict orders to the district administration in the flood-affected districts of the State to ensure that there is “no corruption whatsoever in the distribution of relief items” and to ensure that the flood victims get proper medical treatment. |
Monday, July 25, 2011
NGO demands proper relief for flood victims
Flood situation grim in UP after release of water from Nepal, Narora
The flood situation in Uttar Pradesh has deteriorated following the release of water from Nepal and the Narora dam, threatening the embankments of the rivers flowing through the state.
Several low-lying areas of Gonda, Balrampur, Faizabadand Barabanki have been submerged by the overflowing Ghagra and Saryu rivers.
Nepal has released 2 lakh cusecs of water due to which the Ghagra river has crossed the danger level at Elgin Bridge and at Ayodhya while water level of river Ganga was rising all through its course after 11 lakh cusecs of water was released from Narora dam last night.
A report from Gonda said over 115 villages had been submerged with the water of river Ghagra in Colonelganj and Tarabganj tehsils.
Official sources said 26 flood check posts have been set up while jawans of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) along with boats had been pressed into service to rescue the people.
An official statement from the Flood Control Cell here today said that the water level of Ganga and Yamuna were rising all through its course in UP following the release of 11 lakh cusecs of water last night.
The release said river Ghagra had crossed the danger level at Elgin Bridge and Ayodhya while they would do the same at Turtipar by tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, the weather office here said light rain and thunder showers occured at isolated places in the state.
Source:- http://netindian.in/news/2011/07/24/00014429/flood-situation-grim-after-release-water-nepal-narora
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Depression over Madhya Pradesh and adjoining south Uttar Pradesh weakened
BOB 02/2011/30 Dated: 23 06.2011
Time of issue: 0830 hours IST
Sub: Depression over Madhya Pradesh and adjoining south Uttar Pradesh
weakened into well marked low pressure area.
The depression over east Madhya Pradesh and south Uttar Pradesh moved northwestwards and weakened into well marked low pressure area over west Madhya Pradesh and neighbourhood at 0530 hours IST of today, the 23 June 2011 . The system would move northwestwards and become less marked during next 24 hours..
Under its influence, rain/thundershowers would occur at many places with heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places over west Madhya Pradesh, Gujrat region and east Rajasthan during next 24 hours.
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Waterlogged Kuttanad thirsts for drinking water
Waterlogged Kuttanad thirsts for drinking water
Dennis Marcus Mathew
| Water in the Vembanad lake and Pampa river turns saline |
CRISIS: A boat with water tanks lies idle in the Kainakary region of Kuttanad in Alappuzha,where water shortage has worsened after these boats stopped service for the last two days.
ALAPPUZHA: Even as the threat of floods that loomed over the water-logged Kuttanad seems to have receded, the people are now up against another recurrent scourge. Kuttanad is facing an acute shortage of drinking water, even for its cattle.
The water shortage, an issue that plagues the region round the year, gets severe in the monsoon with the rivers that flow through here and the Vembanad lake turning totally undependable for even a drop of pure water. The drinking water crisis is accentuated by the threat of water-borne diseases as well, particularly cholera.
This is apart from other vector-borne and contagious diseases including Japanese Encephalitis, rat fever and dengue that have already been reported from the area.
In May 2009, there was an outbreak of cholera after sewage seeped into drinking water pipelines.
Different surveys in recent years, including by the Health department, have found dangerous levels of coliform bacteria, including E.Coli, in a majority of water sources in Kuttanad, but shockingly, remedial or preventive measures have been little, according to the residents. Repair and maintenance of pipelines are still to be done in a majority of areas, while supply of water through existing networks are not regular and not happening in several remote areas as well.
Water supply stopped
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Villages sinking in India
Sitamarhi:There are places in Bihar where one can see the process of disappearance of civilization and the villages getting buried under the sediments brought by rivers.? In coming 10-15 years, a tragedy worse than that of Kusaha will strike here for the simple reason that the river bed would be 25 feet higher than the countryside and the crest of the embankment, 35 feet, said a technocrat and an expert on Bihar rivers Dinesh K Mishra in his recent article.