1) Continuous heavy rainfall in the Himalayan mountains has enhanced flood risks in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, with many rivers overflowing their banks. 2) Major rivers like the Sharda and Ghaghra have crossed danger levels, and 11 lives have been lost to rain-related accidents so far. Flood threats loom over districts like Bulandshahr as water levels rise. 3) The district administrations of Bahraich, Lakhimpur-Kheri, Sitapur and Deoria are most affected, with farmlands and houses damaged by flood waters. Over 3 lakh cusec of water is expected to reach Barabanki district from the Sharda barrage

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SITUATION REPORT/ALERT NOTE FOR PROBABLE FLOOD IN UTTAR PRADESH:
Completed by: Poorvanchal Gramin Vikas Sansthan
Team Leader: Krishna Kumar
Team Co-Leaders Raghvendra and Kamal
Date : 19 July 2016
Type of Emergency: Nil/ Just Flood Alert
Due to continuous rains in Hills and heavy water coming from Himalayan Mountains. The flood
situation in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has also been enhanced by overflowing rivers in Nepal.
As rains and
thundershowers
continued across the
state on Monday, rain
related accidents
claimed 11lives in
different parts of UP. All
major rivers were on
the rise and rail and
road routes were
affected in many areas.
Incessant rains led to
increase in water levels of major rivers in the state with Sharda and Ghaghra rivers crossing
the danger mark in Lakhimpur-Kheri and Barabanki districts, respectively.Threat of floods
looms large over Bulandshahr, Ballia, Muzaffaranagar and Ayodhya with water levels rising
in Ganga, Yamuna and Ghaghra rivers.
State Met department predicted rainfall activity will remain low on Tuesday and Wednesday but
will pick up again on Thursday. Heavy rain warning has been issued for Friday.
The fresh spell of rains has also improved
state's rainfall score. Total rainfall in the
state from June 1 till date has been 22%
above normal. In comparison, till July 9, it
was 12% above normal. According to MeT
department, on Sunday and Monday, total
rainfall in Jalesar was over 31mm followed by
Mathura with 23mm, Mirzapur 18mm,
Aligarh and Gorakhpur 15mm each,
Azamgarh 13cm, Jaunpur, Agra and Lucknow
15mm each.
While two persons each were killed in Bijnor and Mathura in wall collapse incidents, five members
of a family died when a house collapsed due to heavy rains in Muzaffarnagar and two persons were
struck dead by lightning in Balrampur. A rail track on the important Agra-Mumbai route has caved in
PGVS Distt Coordinator Kamal, briefing
the situation to Distt Admin, Bahraich

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and repairs are underway. More than a dozen tra ins were running behind schedule. Flood water
has entered many places in Azamgarh.
Many rivers are in the spate after heavy rains in the state since Saturday. District administration of
Hardoi held a meeting with local Army officials to alert them of an impending flood-like situation in
the district.
As per reports from Flood Control unit of the irrigation and water resource department Sharda river
was flowing 1.3 meter above the danger mark in LakhimpurKheri while Ghaghra crossed the danger
mark in Barabanki. At least nine villages were submerged in flood waters in Barabanki district
including Parsaul, Naipura, Manjha Raipur and Kanchanpur. District authorities feared a sharp
increase in water level by Wednesday.
“Around 3 lakh cusec of water has been released from Sharda Barage in Lakhimpur which is
expected to reach Barabanki from Wednesday,“ said sub divisional magistrate (SDM) Ram Nagar
(Barabanki) Ashutosh Dubey. He said preparations were underway to evacuate residents of the
villages on the banks of Ghaghra in the district.
The worst affected districts include Lakhimpur-Kheri, Bahraich, Sitapur and Deoria. In these places,
flood waters have washed away several houses, damaged roads and inundated large farmlands
The eastern district's proneness to floods is attributed, among other things, to heavy rainfall, low
and flat topography, high subsoil water level and the silting of beds which causes river levels to rise.
The major flood-prone rivers are the Ghaghra and Saryu, Rapti and Sharda.
According to DHM, Nepal the flood water level trend in upstream side (Chisapani and Chepang) for
the last 9 days are as given below:
Date River Place Alert level for
Bahraich and
Gonda district
Time Current
Level of
flood water
Status Trend
11.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani,
Nepal
8 Mitre 5:25 PM 7.41 M Below alert
level
Rising
11.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 5:25 PM 2.87 M Below alert
level
Steady
14.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani,
Nepal
8 Mitre 5:15 PM 7.83 M Below alert
level
Rising
14.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 5:15 PM 2.69 M Below alert
level
Falling
18.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani,
Nepal
8 Mitre 11:00 AM 8.30 M Alert One
in Bahraich
and Gonda
district
Steady
18.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 11:00 AM 2.94 M Below alert
level
Steady/

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19.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani,
Nepal
8 Mitre 6:30 AM 8.60 M Alert One
in Bahraich
and Gonda
district
Falling
19.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 6:30 AM 3.76 M Below alert
level
Falling
19.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani,
Nepal
8 Mitre 9:00 PM 7.28 M Below Alert
level
Falling
19.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 9:00 PM 3.62 M Below alert
level
Falling
The water level position in downstream areas according to Central water commission’s report river
“Ganga”, “Ghgra” and “Rapti” is overflowing above danger level in following areas at Haridwar in
Uttarakhand.
Date River State Place Warning
level (WL)
Danger
Level (DL)
Highest
flood level
(HFL)
Current
status
Trend
(standard) (standard) (standard)
18.07.16 Ganga Uttarakha
nd
Haridwar 293.0
Meter
294.0
Meter
296.3
Meter
293.15
Meter
Falling
18.07.16 Ghagra Uttar
Pradesh
Ayodhya 106.7 107.56 106.28 Rising
18.07.16 Rapti Uttar
Pradesh
Balarmpur 104.2 105.25 103.5 Rising
This is to inform you that Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has been forecasted for heavy to
very heavy rain very likely at isolated places in East & West Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in next
48 hours. There is high chance to increase water level in Haridwar and Hrishikesh which may cause
flood situation, IMD has flagged “Red Alert” for Uttarakhand.
The water has been discharged from Girjapuri and Gopiya Barrage on 19th
July 401936 Csk, The
water has been discharged on 20th
July from Girjapuri 141268 Csk and discharged from Sharda
Barrage 138000 Csk.
Total 24 villages from the Mahsi Block of the district Bahraich has affected through flood and
currently six schools are closed, The 4 boats has been placed by sub division administration in the
badly flood and river erosion affected Gram Panchayats Baundi and Gopalganj from the Mahsi
block.
The Belha to Mehrauli embankment in Golaganj are damaged and road disconnected also the road
disconnected of Kayampur embankment road, Pahiya Baundi and Pipari embankment road in
district Bahraich.

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The district Magistrate is very serious for security of embankments and he has
visited various embankments and saw the current position and risk of the
embankments and given order to Tehsildar, Engineers and Lekpal for proper
monitoring and pre poisoning of flood fighting materials.
The Impact:
 On Health:
The 24 village submerged in Mahsi Block and people staying in that villages, there is no information
on the outbreak of epidemics from the affected areas of districts so far but minor cases of fever,
water born diseases, cold and cough are seen. The health department distributed medicine related
to fever, chlorine tablets and ORS among displaced community.
 Education On Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation:
People are drinking water from p6 hand pumps which is bore in upper stream because all the
drinking water supply resources are submersed. PGVS team is educating, demonstrating how to use
aqua tab. We have distributed 500 Aqua tab strips in our project areas.
The Work of PGVS team:
Orientation of revenue officers Bahraich, Gonda and
Gorakhpur: The PGVS team members oriented
approximately 158 revenue officers with SDM,
Tehsildar and Media on process of early warning
accessibility and dissemination process, Preparedness
before flood and Response mechanism in sub division
Mahsi, Nanpara of the district Bahraich and Tehsil Sadar in Gorakhpur. SDM Tarabganj district
Gonda planned the orientation meeting of above mentioned stake holders on 28th
July 2016.
Strengthening of Subdivision Flood Early Warning Centre, Nanpara: The Nanpara administration
requested to PGVS team members for sustainable establishment of electronic rivers display
machine in sub division Nanpara district Bahraich and they also promised that they will ensure
proper maintenance in future. The PGVS team discussed with PGVS board members and established
those machines in sub division Nanpara after their final decision.
Meeting with Network Members: The Cross border network meeting was jointly organized by PGVS
and Practical Action in Nanpara sub division district Bahraich under the leadership of SDM Nanpara
Mr. Amitabh and network members decided the flow of flood information collection from upstream
Mr. Krishna, Kamal and Raghvendra are
educating community about using ORS, Zinc
and Chlorine Tablets
Ghaghra and Saryu River Water Electronic display
machines has been established in Nanpara Tehsil,
district Bahraich

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to downstream and dissemination at filed level along with various cross border challenges and also
discussed solutions.
Work by GTF members in project areas: The GTF
members are collecting flood water level through local
river gauges and electronic display machines. They are
ensuring regular documentation of flood water level of
their Village River and upstream side and also
disseminating 1st
warning through pre setup warning
dissemination process among the village level, house
hold level and sub division and district level.
GTF members placed one corner
white flag for warning 1st
dissemination in village early
warning centre Mangle Purwa,
Mahsi Block

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Paper News

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Flood alert
issued in Uttar
Pradesh
following
heavy rainfall
By: ANI | Lucknow | Updated: July 19, 2016 9:09 am
(representational photo)
A flood alert has been issued in several districts of Uttar Pradesh, in view of heavy rains for the
last two days.
All major rivers are in spate and have inundated large swathes of land.
As Sharda and Ghaghra rivers crossed danger mark in Lakhimpur Kheri and Barabanki, the
flood threat looms large over several other districts.
The flood posts established to help the affected people have started working in various districts.