ALL the temples and shops at the banks of river Narmada submerged into the flooded river following the continued water discharging from Rani Avanti Bai Sagar Project ‘Bargi Dam’, on Wednesday. It may be noted that water discharging from the reservoir from 9 spillway gates was started on Tuesday morning. Even after increasing water discharging, a huge inflow upto 1126 cumec was reported on Wednesday, leading to increase in the water level of the reservoir by upto 421 metres against the peak level of 422.76 metres. Bargi Dam Flood Cell incharge informed that pointing out the heavy downpour and reaching the peak water level of the reservoir, Dam Administration started water discharging from the reservoir from 9 of the total 21 spillway gates for discharging 1031 lakh cumec from the opening height of 0.78 metre.

 

Heavy water discharging from the reservoir leads to increase the water level on downstream of the river from 4 to 6 feet. Following the increasing of water discharging from Bargi Dam, all the temples and banks on downstream of river Narmada submerged into the flooded river. District administration has declared red alert to avoid presence of residents near the flooded river while police stations of concerned areas are keeping vigilant eye to avoid entry of people near the river. SDERF teams are on high alert and keeping eye on the banks of river to avoid any kind of untoward incident due to flooded river. Collectors, Superintendents of Police and other concerned departments of Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Raisen, Hoshangabad, Sihore, Dewas, Harda, Khargon, Khandwa district have been informed for ensuring the implementation of necessary safety measures at banks of the river Narmada. Besides this, alert sirens were blown at the banks of river at Gwarighat, Tilwaraghat, Lametaghat and Bhedaghat in Jabalpur to alert the residents for maintaining safe distance from the flooded river.