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Punjab CM asks ministers to talk over with flood-hit spaces; rescue operations underway

By means of PTI

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday requested his ministers to talk over with the flood-hit spaces within the state, at the same time as rescue and reduction operations are underway in Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar and Gurdaspur districts.

Many spaces in Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar and Gurdaspur districts had been inundated following the discharge of extra water from the Bhakra and Pong dams, officers stated.

The Bhakra Dam on Sutlej river and the Pong Dam on Beas river — each in Himachal Pradesh — are brimming after heavy rain of their respective catchment spaces.

Government have already introduced rescue and reduction operations within the flood-hit spaces in those 3 districts and in addition stated that they had been preserving an eye fixed at the scenario.

Leader Minister Mann directed his ministers to talk over with flood-hit spaces and in addition issued instructions to depute groups of Nationwide Crisis Reaction Drive (NDRF), stated legit assets.

In an advisory on Monday, the Punjab govt had requested citizens of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Tarn Taran districts to not project close to the Beas after it was once determined that water from the Pong Dam could be launched.

After the water was once launched from dams, it entered low-lying spaces and several other villages, even some homes, situated at the banks of the Beas and Sutlej rivers.

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Vegetation have additionally been submerged in numerous puts on account of floodwaters, villagers stated. Many villagers had been evacuated to protection, officers stated.

Cupboard ministers Harbhajan Singh and Bram Shanker Jimpa took inventory of the location of flood-hit spaces in Tanda Urmar within the Hoshiarpur district.

Talking to journalists, Singh stated rescue operations had been underway and that boats had been deployed to evacuate other people to protection.

He additionally stated that the general public works division and mining division had been engaged in plugging the breaches of embankments alongside the Beas River.

Punjab Training Minister and Anandpur Sahib MLA Harjot Singh Bains visited flood-hit spaces within the Rupnagar district and requested other people to not panic.

He stated other people trapped in Harsa Bela and Patti Dulchi villages in Anandpur Sahib had been rescued.

He additionally appealed to other people residing close to the banks of Sutlej river that they will have to transfer to more secure puts.

Bains stated the CM was once tracking the location.

Punjab has been flooded for the second one time in simply over a month.

A number of portions of Punjab had been suffering from a rains within the state between July 9 and July 11, which flooded huge expanses of agricultural fields and different spaces, but even so paralysing standard lifestyles.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday requested his ministers to talk over with the flood-hit spaces within the state, at the same time as rescue and reduction operations are underway in Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar and Gurdaspur districts.

Many spaces in Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar and Gurdaspur districts had been inundated following the discharge of extra water from the Bhakra and Pong dams, officers stated.

The Bhakra Dam on Sutlej river and the Pong Dam on Beas river — each in Himachal Pradesh — are brimming after heavy rain of their respective catchment spaces.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Government have already introduced rescue and reduction operations within the flood-hit spaces in those 3 districts and in addition stated that they had been preserving an eye fixed at the scenario.

Leader Minister Mann directed his ministers to talk over with flood-hit spaces and in addition issued instructions to depute groups of Nationwide Crisis Reaction Drive (NDRF), stated legit assets.

In an advisory on Monday, the Punjab govt had requested citizens of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Tarn Taran districts to not project close to the Beas after it was once determined that water from the Pong Dam could be launched.

After the water was once launched from dams, it entered low-lying spaces and several other villages, even some homes, situated at the banks of the Beas and Sutlej rivers.

ALSO READ | A number of villages in Punjab inundated after water launched from Pong, Bhakra dam

Vegetation have additionally been submerged in numerous puts on account of floodwaters, villagers stated. Many villagers had been evacuated to protection, officers stated.

Cupboard ministers Harbhajan Singh and Bram Shanker Jimpa took inventory of the location of flood-hit spaces in Tanda Urmar within the Hoshiarpur district.

Talking to journalists, Singh stated rescue operations had been underway and that boats had been deployed to evacuate other people to protection.

He additionally stated that the general public works division and mining division had been engaged in plugging the breaches of embankments alongside the Beas River.

Punjab Training Minister and Anandpur Sahib MLA Harjot Singh Bains visited flood-hit spaces within the Rupnagar district and requested other people to not panic.

He stated other people trapped in Harsa Bela and Patti Dulchi villages in Anandpur Sahib had been rescued.

He additionally appealed to other people residing close to the banks of Sutlej river that they will have to transfer to more secure puts.

Bains stated the CM was once tracking the location.

Punjab has been flooded for the second one time in simply over a month.

A number of portions of Punjab had been suffering from a rains within the state between July 9 and July 11, which flooded huge expanses of agricultural fields and different spaces, but even so paralysing standard lifestyles.