Rabindranath Biswas
Diglipur, June 11: A number of villages under Diglipur Tehsil were under flood waters today.
As per report, heavy rain on the last night caused severe flood like situation and several low lying areas in Diglipur were submerged by the raging flood waters. The Kalpong River as well as Krishnapuri River was flowing at an all-time high with their fury; one could see only muddy and yellowish water everywhere.
There was almost waist-deep flood water on roads in several areas where people suspended their vehicle trips across the flood-hit roads while bikers chose to take alternative routes to reach their houses/destinations.
Mr. Aditya Asthana, DANICS, Assistant Commissioner, Diglipur along with Circle Patwaris and Fire Brigade personnel reached out to the flood hit areas and took stock of the situations. The ACDP then gave directions to the concerned officials for conducting rescue operations and extending relief materials to the flood victims. Accordingly, relief centres were activated and rescue operations were swiftly conducted; a rescue boat was pressed for evacuating the people stuck in flood. After evacuation, they were kept at relief shelters at various places under the different Gram Panchayats. The Assistant Commissioner provided ration items to Madhupur and Diglipur Panchayats for flood victims. The local administration also distributed water to the flood affected people under Subhashgram Panchayat. Fire Brigade personnel also swung into action and evacuated people trapped in their houses.
Though there was no report of loss of human life, the people living in low lying areas especially in Madhupur, D.B. Gram and R.K. Gram village sustained huge loss of their property and goods. Talking to Andaman Sheekha Daily, flood victims said their household appliances like refrigerators etc got damaged as the flood waters entered their houses. On the other hand, a number of shops on the Madhupur Road also sustained financial loss as the flood waters entered their shops and caused damage to their goods. Similarly, a few farmers also registered their vegetable loss due to the inundation of their crop fields. Electricity on the other hand was also disrupted due to the squally showers and deluge. The corollaries have altogether triggered a huge loss of property and goods to the deluge victims in the flood hit areas.
According to the information received from the Office of the ACDP, a team of officials will soon reach out to the flood affected areas to assess the loss and damages of goods and property of people caused by the flood.
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