Jaipur/ Haridwar, Aug 27 (ANI): Heavy rains across north India have thrown normal life completely out of gear.
Torrential rains lashed Jaipur recently, flooding streets and stalling traffic.Speaking to reporters on Monday, locals said continuous rains have begun to affect their livelihood.
“ Authorities have also issued warnings to locals in Uttar Pradesh as water levels have escalated in River Ganga, leaving low-lying areas in Haridwar vulnerable to floods.
Local authorities vowed to deal with the aftermath of any situation that might affect the area.
Interacting with reporters here, Haridwar District Magistrate Sachin Kurve said, “Water levels in River Ganges are slowly rising and remain just 0.6 from the danger mark. We will have to see the pattern of rainfall in the next few hours. Our staff is working to deal with any situation, as the Ganges is nearing the danger mark.”
The administration has promised to take steps to evacuate the people to safer places.
The annual monsoon, vital for South Asia’s agricultural dependent economy, often wreaks havoc as floods inundate vast swathes of low-lying lands.
As River Yamuna breached the danger mark yet again, threatening to submerge low-lying areas in New Delhi, railway officials on Monday said the old bridge is still safe, and added that rail traffic would not be halted.
Divisional Railway Manager, Northern Railway (NR), A K Sachan, said that the bridge is safe for vehicular movement and a guard is deployed to check the water level.
“The danger level in Yamuna River is 204 metres, at the moment; the water level is 204 metres. But there is another aspect, where scour depth is measured, where the sand washed away in the riverbed is measured. So, that level is 199 metres, but so far that level is 201 metres. So, we have a gap of 2 metres. So, we are still very safe. We have deployed a guard on the bridge and round the clock manning is being done and if anything goes wrong like scour level goes further down, then we will have to take the action and stop the traffic on the bridge,” said Sachan.
Sachan further said that construction work of new bridge was delayed due to some problem posed by the Archaeological Survey of India and are trying to resolve the issue at the earliest.
So far, a total of 307.8 mm of rain has been recorded in Delhi in the second lap of monsoons that began in the last week of June.
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