CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday visited the flood-affected areas of Yamunanagar and Karnal districts and ordered special “girdawari” to assess the losses caused to crops and property.
Mr. Hooda made an aerial survey of the area and also travelled by road to meet the affected people.
Talking to the media at Jagadhri, he scotched allegations levelled by the Opposition that “the floods were caused in Haryana to save Delhi”. He claimed that the devastation could have been much worse if the Government had not taken timely steps.
He directed the district authorities to take stern action against hoarding of sand near the banks of the Yamuna as this had contributed to the flooding of low-lying areas.
Meanwhile, an official spokesman said the discharge into the Yamuna at 6 a.m. was 51,219 cusecs and it reached the level of 154,096 cusecs at 10 a.m, 257,499 cusecs at 11 a.m. and 265,944 cusecs at 1 p.m. Thereafter it started receding and was pegged at 119,325 cusecs at 4 p.m.
The discharge into the Somb and Pathrala rivers was only 2,000 cusecs, he added.
The flood water that had entered the villages and the agriculture land after peak discharge of 7.07 lakh cusecs have receded.
However, the embankment along the Yamuna has been damaged at many places by way of erosion and some fresh damage has been caused to the old Tajewala headworks.
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