300 people are rescued from Kapurthala flood-affected areas by army and NDRF forces

Nearly 300 people were evacuated from marooned villages in Punjab’s Kapurthala district by Army and NDRF forces on Thursday.

According to Karnail Singh, the deputy commissioner for Kapurthala, six teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Army used six boats to rescue individuals trapped by the floods, and all those who were rescued have been sent to relief camps.

 

He claimed that the Beas river floods, caused by the Bhakra Dam’s discharge of excess water, had damaged a total of 22 villages, and hoped that things would get better by Friday.

 

According to him, some flood victims are residing within ‘dhusi bundhs’ (embankments) in ‘deras’ to tend to their crops, while some 40 individuals are hesitant to leave their marooned homes and their animals.

 

After the surplus water from the Pong and Bhakra dams was released this week, several areas of the districts of Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Rupnagar, and Kapurthala were under water.

 

Teams from the Army and NDRF were also helping with rescue and relief efforts in several of the damaged Gurdaspur district regions.

 

According to authorities, medical teams have been deployed by boat to residences in the region to check on residents who have been confined to their homes for three days or who refuse to leave.

 

In order to bring the level in their reservoirs to a safe limit, the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), which oversees the Bhakra and Pong dams, said on Wednesday that it will release extra water in a regulated way over the next four to five days.

 

Following significant rainfall in their respective catchment regions, the Bhakra dam on the Sutlej river and the Pong dam on the Beas river, both in Himachal Pradesh, are overflowing.

 

A deluge in the state between July 9 and 11 also hit numerous sections of Punjab last month, paralyzing everyday life and flooding wide swaths of farms and other locations.