Chitrakoot: Mandakini river crosses danger mark, leaves behind trail of destruction

 

 

 

Due to continuous rains all day and night on Thursday, the Mandakini river once again crossed the danger mark, due to which flood water again filled the houses, shops and establishments of the people living near the banks of river Mandkini. This is second time Mandakini river has crossed the danger makr within a week. On the instructions of the Satna District Administration, the police administration and the employees of City Panchayat Chitrakoot were constantly monitoring the water level of the Mandakini river. However, it was a matter of relief that since early Friday morning, the Mandakini river came below the danger mark and the flood water started receding. The locals breathed a sigh of relief as the water level of Mandakini decreased.

 

On Friday afternoon, Satna Collector Dr Satish S and S.P Ashutosh Gupta reached Chitrakoot Bharat Ghat and took stock of the flood in Mandakini river. They also inspected Kamadgiri Parikrama Path. Collector Dr Satish S has instructed the subordinate officers to complete the survey list of flood victims in Chitrakoot as soon as possible. Collector informed that the survey of flood affected people in Chitrakoot will be completed by Monday. Efforts will be made to provide relief amount by the end of next week. The Collector said that our effort is to ensure that the relief amount reaches all the flood affected people as soon as possible. Tourism has also suffered badly due to the flood in the Mandakini river.

 

Many banks and constructions related to beautification of Chitrakoot have been damaged in this flood. Collector said that he will soon send the officials of the concerned department to inspect and ask for a report for the information of the destruction caused to beautification, ghat construction, returning wall and pitching done from Arogyadham to Mokamgarhm, due to flood. Traffic and life were affected due to heavy rains in the UP region of Chitrakoot. Due to heavy rains, the gates of Ohan and Gunta Dam have been opened in Chitrakoot on the instructions of District Magistrate Shivsharanappa GN. All records of heavy rains were broken in Chitrakoot UP and in the district's two police station areas, in the Pahadi police station area. In rain related incident, two siblings of the family, a 5-year-old sister and her 01-year-old brother, died after trapped in the debris of the house which collapsed. While both the parents are seriously injured.

 

In another incident, 2 out of 5 children were swept away, who had gone for fishing in the check dam in Shivrampur Chowki area, in the strong current of the flood. The bodies could not be retrived due to rains At the same time, due to heavy rains in Chitrakoot on Thursday, two women of the family were injured when a wall of a kutcha house collapsed in Khatikana Mohalla in Ward No. 06 of Nayagaon, Chitrakoot, late in the evening. On receiving the information, the Chitrakoot police station team reached the spot and admitted both the injured to Janakikund Hospital. In which Parvati wife of late Radhe Sonkar, 70 years of age, died during treatment on Saturday morning.