Yogi Adityanath: Step up relief efforts in flood-hit areas

The Chief Minister directed the officials acrophobic to personally sojourn the affected areas, show the situation, and accelerate alleviation efforts. He emphasised the request to supply each imaginable assistance to the affected people.

Following Adityanath’s instructions, aggregate teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and Pradeshik Armed Constabulary (PAC) were deployed successful the affected districts, a elder goverment authoritative said.

He besides instructed District Magistrates to measure harvest harm and taxable reports to the authorities truthful that compensation could beryllium processed for affected farmers.
The CM besides called for contiguous fiscal assistance for those whose homes person been damaged oregon livestock mislaid owed to the floods.

Relief Commissioner Bhanu Chandra Goswami said alleviation efforts are being made connected a war-footing successful the 11 flood-hit districts.

Among these districts, Kushinagar, Ballia and Lakhimpur Kheri are the worst-affected, it is learnt. In Kushinagar, 5 villages person been impacted by the Gandak river, affecting astir 8,000 radical owed to waterlogging.

In Lakhimpur Kheri district, 19,500 radical from astatine least

11 villages person been affected by the floods, with 7 experiencing ungraded erosion.

The Relief Commissioner said that 18 villages successful 3 tehsils of Ballia territory are affected by floods, with 5 villages experiencing ungraded erosion and harvest damage. About 8,300 radical are affected by waterlogging successful the district.

Relief efforts are besides being made successful different flood-affected districts, including Kanpur Nagar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Sitapur, Hardoi, and Shahjahanpur, officials said.