Officials said Bhubaneswar, all major rivers in Bhubaneswar, North Odisha, which included Subnarekha and Batarani, have resumed by Tuesday evening, there are about 170 villages in about 170 villages in Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajpur districts.
He said that the plight of people surrounded by flood water for two days is likely to deteriorate as the IMD has warned of heavy rains in the next few days due to a fresh low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal.
A truck driver went missing after a vehicle flowed from flood waters in Sudaregarh district.
Meanwhile, Odisha’s Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari visited the flood affected areas in Jajpur district, where a tributary of Bitarini was submerged in more than 45 villages after the Kani river embankment on Saturday.
The priest told reporters, “The water level falling in all major rivers in the North Odisha flood has improved. However, people living in low -lying areas are still in relief camps where they are provided with cooked food,” the priest told reporters.
He said that the government will provide home damage and agricultural input for the loss of crops, as soon as water comes out of the villages.
The minister said that relief and rescue operations by the local administration were going on in full swing and the authorities would immediately start anticipating loss.
The priest said that many people have been vacated in relief camps in all affected districts.
Meanwhile, Odisha Governor Hari Babu Kamhampati reviewed the flood situation and suggested that the authorities ensured “zero casualties” in the disaster.
He suggested some long -term measures to control the frequent flood incidents in North Odisha.
The governor was informed that Balasore, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Kenjhar, Mayurbhanj and Sundargarh districts were affected in this magic of floods. He asked the officials to provide necessary people to the needy during the crisis.
A report in Sundergarh district said that a trailer truck was swept away by a strong flood waters crossing a bridge over the Safi River in a spontaneous area.
The driver of the vehicle, was identified as Sujit Ande, while fire fighting service personnel rescued the truck assistant. A search operation continues to detect the missing driver.
According to the latest report, the water level of the Subnarekha river in Rajghat decreased by 10.36 meters, a danger mark, and a falling trend. Similarly, the water level of Batarani in Akhiapada was also recurring, the official said, the water level of other rivers was on a recurrence mode.
The head engineer of the Water Resources Department CS Paddi said that although rainfall has been negligible in the rivers of North Odisha and Mahanadi Delta regions, the southern region of the state has received more rainfall on the basis of Bansadhara, Nagabali and Kolb.
The IMD said that on Tuesday at 5.30 am, a fresh low pressure area has become a freshly low pressure area from the Odisha coast in the northwest Bay of Bengal, and it is likely to move towards west-north-west and more during the next two days.
The Meteorological Agency has warned of isolated heavy rainfall in Odisha for four days. Heavy rains may occur on August 26-27.
The IMD has issued a red warning, stating that heavy rains have been rained with heavy heavy rain with heavy heavy rain and the storm’s surface wind speed arrives at a speed of 30–40 kmph, which is likely to be one or two places in the districts of Koraput and Malkangiri by Wednesday morning.
Similarly, it warned of very heavy rainfall at one or two places in the districts of Navrangpur, Kalahandi, Raigada, Kandmal and Gajapati districts.
“Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kandrapada, Cuttack, Jagat Singhpur, Puri, Khurda, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Dhanak, Dhanak, Dhanak, Dhanak, Dhanak, Kongur, Dhanak, Dhanak, Dhanak, Konagirh Buddha,” I am quoted by IMD forecast.
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