<p>Reply affidavit by Water Resources Department, Maharashtra in EA No 04/2022 (WZ) in the matter of Sarang Yadvadkar & Ors V/s The State of Maharashtra dated 23/04/2024.</p> <p>The matter related
Look at the contours of the disastrous consequences of the current Orissa floods in Mahanadi River basin: According to Engineer in Chief, Water Resources Department of Orissa, this is the worst floods in Orissa since 1982. The reason behind this
Three villages and more than 150 acres of agricultural land came under water when a 50-feet wide breach developed in Kandeer Shakh canal at RD-61 near Keenjhar in the Mirpur Mathelo area on Wednesday. Water gushing out of the breach inundated Kajlo Pitafi, Nawab Pitafi, and Qadir Bux Pitafi villages and washed away paddy crop standing on over 150 acres of land.
As the water of the Padma is swelling continuously, the flood situation of different areas, including Faridpur, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Madaripur, Shariatpur and Dohar and Nawabganj of Dhaka, deteriorated further yesterday. The situation on the other hand in many other areas has started to improve, as the rivers Brahmaputra and Jamuna have started to fall. Around 2000 hectares of land of fresh areas in Faridpur inundated yesterday, including four unions of Sadar upazila, two unions of Charvadrason and one in Sadarpur, due to continuous increase of water of the Padma.
The Government has taken special moves with the assistance of UNDP to mitigate the floods and landslides in various parts of the country including Ratnapura, Nuwara-Eliya, Badulla, Kandy, Kalutara, Colombo and Gampaha Districts owing to the rains, Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said.
Major rivers, including the Padma and the Jamuna, continued to swell Monday, disrupting ferry services and overflowing banks in some districts, where fresh areas went under water. At least one death was reported as surging water inundated more villages and washed away parts of river banks, according to reports reaching from Manikganj and Faridpur districts. Stranded vehicles stood in long queues for hours on the both sides of the Padma river as pontoons at Paturia-Daulatdia ferry ghats sank.
The bank of the Ganga in Bhutni where the river has been advancing steadily. Picture by Surajit Roy Malda, July 28: People living on Bhutni island on the Ganga are facing a dilemma: whether to allow the river to breach the embankment and bring in silt that will enrich the soil, or ask the irrigation department to take steps to stop the flooding. "If the rising waters of the river breach the embankment and deposit the silt, we will have a green revolution on the island,' a farmer said.
KULPI, July 28: Although soil erosion is an acute problem in Malda and Murshidabad, the situation is not much different at Kulpi in South 24- Parganas. People living in the villages of Hara, Mukundapur, Harinarayanpur and Raytala are haunted by the fear of being deprived of shelter. Major parts of the territories have already been submerged under the river bed.
Though there was a slight fall in the level of water in major rivers, the overall flood situation in the State remained grim today also with the Brahmaputra flowing above the danger level at three places. The mighty river is flowing above the warning level at three other places and most of its tributaries also are flowing above the warning level at various sites. However, the flood scenario in the river island Majuli was reported this afternoon to be stable.
The flood situation of the country deteriorated yesterday as several rivers were flowing above their danger marks and a number of them continued to swell and burst their banks. More low-lying areas of the country were flooded yesterday and the situation may worsen during the next few days. The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) yesterday said six rivers were flowing above their danger marks at seven points and 38 other points saw rise in water levels.
WE believe, given the latest information, the flood situation seems to be unfolding rather rapidly in the country. We should face the facts squarely that large areas under Netrakona, Pabna, Rangpur, Faridpur and Khulna districts are getting inundated as water level of the Padma, the Jamuna and the Teesta is rising steadily. Already 10,000 people have been affected in Faridpur and hundreds of acres of cropland have gone under water. In Khulna district a number of embankments have been washed away by floodwater thereby rendering hundreds of people homeless.
