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1,457 villages nonetheless suffering from floods in Punjab

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By way of PTI

CHANDIGARH: A complete of one,457 villages in Punjab are nonetheless suffering from floods led to through the new heavy downpour within the state, officers mentioned on Saturday.

Recently, 19 districts “Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Faridkot, Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, Kapurthala, Patiala, Moga, Ludhiana, SAS Nagar, Jalandhar, Sangrur, SBS Nagar, Fazilka, Gurdaspur, Mansa, Bathinda and Pathankot” are flood-affected, they mentioned.

A complete of 27,221 other people had been evacuated from waterlogged spaces and brought to more secure puts within the state, the officers mentioned, including 170 aid camps are operational by which 4,909 flood-hit individuals are staying.

In step with a file through the earnings division, 40 other people misplaced their lives because of the floods and 15 had been injured.

A number of districts of Punjab and Haryana had been battered through the new heavy downpour that left standard lifestyles paralysed and flooded huge tracts of residential and agricultural land.

Despite the fact that the floodwaters have receded in lots of spaces of Punjab and Haryana, paintings on plugging breaches in earthen embankments that experience arise alongside the rivers used to be happening.

Punjab Water Sources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Thursday issued directions to hurry up the paintings on plugging breaches alongside rivers at other puts within the state.

CHANDIGARH: A complete of one,457 villages in Punjab are nonetheless suffering from floods led to through the new heavy downpour within the state, officers mentioned on Saturday.

Recently, 19 districts “Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Faridkot, Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, Kapurthala, Patiala, Moga, Ludhiana, SAS Nagar, Jalandhar, Sangrur, SBS Nagar, Fazilka, Gurdaspur, Mansa, Bathinda and Pathankot” are flood-affected, they mentioned.

A complete of 27,221 other people had been evacuated from waterlogged spaces and brought to more secure puts within the state, the officers mentioned, including 170 aid camps are operational by which 4,909 flood-hit individuals are staying.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

In step with a file through the earnings division, 40 other people misplaced their lives because of the floods and 15 had been injured.

A number of districts of Punjab and Haryana had been battered through the new heavy downpour that left standard lifestyles paralysed and flooded huge tracts of residential and agricultural land.

Despite the fact that the floodwaters have receded in lots of spaces of Punjab and Haryana, paintings on plugging breaches in earthen embankments that experience arise alongside the rivers used to be happening.

Punjab Water Sources Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Thursday issued directions to hurry up the paintings on plugging breaches alongside rivers at other puts within the state.