The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has presented a repor on the flood situation in Bihar. The flood means nothing new in north Bihar as it happens every year with or without rains.
This time this is the flood without rain in Bihar. The floodwater comes from the upside valley of Nepal. Like every year, the river Bagmati is flowing at High Flood Level at tirhut region in Bihar.
The Muzaffarpur -Sitamarhi National highway is in extremely bad condition. The HFL has gone up to 49.61m and the danger level is 48.68m.
There are 457 villages in 13 districts of north Bihar are currently flood-affected area in Bihar. The crop area of 75,000 hectares in these agricultural-based regions has been completely damaged.
Muzzafarpur, Supaul, Darbhanga, Madhubani,Sitamarhi, Kishanganj, East Champaran, West Chamaparan, Katihar, Bhagalpur,Samastipur , Madheura and Saharsa are the worst affected districts.
Because of flood some 1129 houses got completely damaged more than 3500 houses are damaged to some extent. Six people died in Bhagalpur, seven died in Muzzafarpur and one in Sitamarhi.
The government has started administrative measures to evacuate people safely from those flood-affected villages. More than two thousand people are safely evacuated until now.
There are 27 boats deployed in Muzzafarpur, 7 boats in Supaul, 16 boats in Darbhanga, 59 boats in Madhubani, 40 boats in Sitamarhi, 24 boats in Kishanganj, 23 boats in East Champaran, 8 boats in West Chamaparan, 19 boats in Katihar, 27 boats in Bhagalpur, 5 in Samastipur, and 24 boats in Madhepura are working to evacuate people to safe places.
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