Severe monsoon flooding worsened across central and northern Bihar on Sunday as the swollen Ganga river crossed extreme danger marks at multiple monitoring stations, affecting more than nineteen lakh residents across eleven districts.
Continuous torrential rainfall in upstream catchment basins of Uttar Pradesh and Nepal triggered massive water influxes into the Ganga, Gandak, Sone, and Kosi rivers. In Patna, floodwaters submerged low-lying residential sectors and agricultural tracts near Digha Ghat and Danapur, forcing municipal authorities to deploy mechanized boats to evacuate marooned families.
Bihar Disaster Management Department reports indicated that over eight hundred revenue villages remain partially inundated, with vast stretches of standing kharif crops submerged under several feet of muddy runoff. The state administration mobilized twenty-four units of the National Disaster Response Force alongside provincial SDRF teams to conduct evacuation operations in Saran, Vaishali, Bhojpur, and Samastipur.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar conducted high-level video reviews with affected district magistrates, instructing field officers to establish community relief kitchens and maintain round-the-clock medical aid camps. Veterinary teams were also dispatched to provide fodder and vaccinate livestock stranded on raised river embankments.
Central Water Commission hydro-engineers warned that while rainfall intensity may stabilize over the coming forty-eight hours, drainage discharge through the Farakka Barrage remains critical to relieving pressure along downstream riparian districts. State authorities urged residents in vulnerable riverbed localities to relocate immediately to designated government relief shelters.
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