Fourteen people were killed and seven others injured in rain-related incidents in different parts of Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 148 in the last one month, official sources said today.
According to reports, two people were killed each in Farukhabad and Bahraich while one each in Kheri, Raebareli, Lucknow, Kanpur Dehat, Barabanki, Sitpaur and Sultanpur.
In the last one week, 106 people died and 100 others were injured in rain-related incidents in the state, officials said. Most of the deaths occurred due to wall and house collapse, uprooting of trees, electrocution and caving in of land, they said.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed senior officials of all the districts to alert people and asked them to undertake extensive tours of the affected areas and identify dilapidated buildings and get them vacated, a government spokesperson said here.
He also directed the officials to provide immediate financial and medical assistance to people severely affected by rains.
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav today instructed the party office-bearers and workers to help people stranded in the flood-affected areas.
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"The Samajwadi Party has always been at the forefront to help people during a crisis. There should be no laxity in helping the families by providing them food, clothes and shelter," Yadav said here in a statement.
UP Congress spokesperson Uma Shankar Pandey said there could be an outbreak of vector-borne diseases because of incessant rainfall and the state government should ensure a comprehensive mechanism to deal with such a situation.
"The rainfall which is happening in the state for the past few days and flood-like situation may lead to epidemic-like situation. Last year, a number of people were affected by diseases like dengue and chikunguniya. The state government must ensure a comprehensive mechanism, so that similar situation does not arise this year," she said in a statement here.
According to Relief Commissioner Sanjay Kumar, 148 people have been killed in rain-related incidents in the state since July 1.
"During this period, 122 people were injured while 177 cattle also died and as many as 1,185 houses damaged," Kumar said.
According to the MeT Department here, more rain and thundershowers are likely at most places over the east and at many places in the west Uttar Pradesh tomorrow.
Moderate to heavy rain and thundershowers occurred at most places in the state today, the weather office said.
Nanpara (Bahraich) and Baheri each recorded 15 cm of rainfall, followed by Haidergarh (Barabanki), Safipur and Nighason (11 cm each), Bareilly (10 cm), Lucknow, Unnao, Kannauj (9 cm each), Bareilly (8 cm), and Fatehgarh, Fatehpur, Bhatpurawaghat, Mathura (7 cm each).
According to a Central Water Commission (CWC) report, the Sharda river was flowing above the danger mark in Paliakalan (Lakhimpur) and near the mark at Sharda Nagar (Kheri), while the Ghagra river was above the red mark at Elgin Bridge (Barabanki) and at Ayodhya (Faizabad).
The water level of the Ganga river was rising in Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur, Rae Bareli, Garhmukteshwar, Mirzapur, Fafamau (Allahabad), Ghazipur and Ballia and the Yamuna was flowing above the danger mark in Mathura. It was also rising in Agra and Eetawah, the report said.
The water level of the Gomti river was rising in Sultanpur, and the Rapti river in Bahraich, Shravasti and Balrampur, it said.