Valmikinagar MP asks officials to expedite flood relief operations or face music

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Bagaha : JD (U) MP from Valmikinagar in West Champaran district Baidyanath Mahto on July 29, 2019, warned the officials engaged in flood relief and rehabilitation operations against any slackness in their duty. Mahto told the officials that if flood water remains logged in any house for over 72 hours, the affected family would be entitled to relief. The state government is ready to provide adequate relief to each flood affected persons, the JD(U) MP said.

Mahto expressed his strong displeasure over the lackadaisical attitude of officials in helping flood victims. The JD(U) MP on July 29, 2019, held a meeting with officials of Bagaha -1 and Bagaha -2 blocks including Block Development Officers (BDOs), Agriculture Officers (AOs), Assistant Engineer (Electricity, Rural Road and PWD engineers, and Circle Officers (COs) to review the flood relief operations after visiting the flood affected areas. Mahto gathered information about flood situation from every official attending the meeting at PWD Inspection Bungalow, Bagaha.

The JD(U) leader asked Rural Road engineer to give top priority to connecting village roads damaged due to heavy rain and flood. Mahto said that paddy crop had been completely destroyed in some areas but no seedlings were available for fresh transplantation. Sugarcane crop have also been partially damaged. The MP asked Agriculture Officers to prepare crops damage report to provide compensation to the farmers concerned.

Many villagers who had come from remote area including Pasupati  Gupta, a farmer and Mukhia of Ausani  Mangalpur, said  that houses of many poor people had been completely damaged in flood but no officer had visited them to inquire about it. Many houses in low laying wards of Nagar Parishad, Bagaha, were still waterlogged but no relief had been provided to the  affected people. Mahto took serious note of it and directed the officials concerned to provide them immediate relief failing which action would be taken against them.

Mahto, during the review meeting also spoke to DM, West Champaran, Nilesh Ramchandra Deore, on telephone, and informed him about slackness on the part of officials in providing relief to flood victims. He said  the hilly rivers, which pass through these areas, had damaged many village protection bunds inundating the adjoining villages. These.hilly rivers have become sorrow of Tharuhat under Bagaha Sub-Division in West Champaran district as the flood water carries sand, Mahto said.

Mahto asked the district administration to prepare a report on damage caused  by these hilly rivers and start immediate  dredging of the riverbed.