New Delhi: The Delhi government on Tuesday said thousands of people living in the floodplains of the swollen Yamuna river in the city have been shifted to temporary shelters at safer places and provided with food and water. Saurabh Bhardwaj, water minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government, said the evacuation process was underway. The affected people are being shifted to East, North, North-East, South-East, Central and Shahdara districts of Delhi, where over 2,700 tents have been arranged for them, Bhardwaj said at a press conference.
Yamuna’s water level increased again
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The minister said the water level of Yamuna is rising due to release of huge amount of water from Haryana but there is no possibility of flood in Delhi. “Delhi will not be flooded. As soon as the Yamuna level rises, people living on the banks of the river will have to be evacuated. There is no danger of water entering residential areas close to the river,” he said.
Bhardwaj said most of the tents have been put up in East district (1,700) to provide shelter to the evacuees, besides 280 in North East Delhi district, 170 in Shahdara, 150 in Central and 384 in South East district . He said that shelters have also been set up in the northern district where food, water and other facilities were provided.
Delhi government ready: Kejriwal
After an emergency meeting on Tuesday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that people would be evacuated from the Yamuna floodplain when the river crosses the 206-metre mark. He said his government is prepared to deal with the situation and 41,000 people have been identified to be shifted to relief camps if needed.
The river has now gone further than that. Its water level crossed the danger mark of 205.33 meters on Monday evening, much earlier than expected. With the release of more water from Hathni into the river, the water level is likely to go up to 206.75 meters by 6 pm.
Kund Barrage in Haryana.
Road, rail traffic suspended on old Yamuna bridge
Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Deepak Kumar said that since the water level touched the danger mark due to release of water from Hathnikund Barrage in Haryana, rail and road traffic on the Old Yamuna Bridge has been temporarily suspended from 6 am on Tuesday. given. , Northern Railway.
The Safdarjung observatory, Delhi’s main weather station, recorded 107.3 mm of rain in a 24-hour period ending 8:30 am on Monday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the city received 2.9 mm of rain in the next nine hours.