Water level in Beas river is on the increase
From PS Walia
Fact News Service
Kapurthala Aug.13: The swollen Beas river has inundated 22 villages in the Mand areas of Sultanpur Lodhi and water level in Beas river has been on the increase said Sultanpur Lodhi SDM Alka Kalia.
According to SDO drainage Khushwinder Singh water level in Beas river is one lakh nineteen thousand cusecs. He said it is very difficult to plug 100 feet wide breach as the flow of gushing water is very high and work on plugging would start when water level decreases and department was readying sand bags to plug the breach.
The SDM sad that the worst affected villages Baupur, Baupur Kadim, Jadid and Sangra where standing paddy crops had been submerged under four to six feet of water.
She said residents of Baupur are not ready to leave their houses in the Mand areas but were shifting their belongings to some safer places.
Meanwhile Environmentalist and Rajya Sabha Member Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal has pressed into service two motor boats to deliver cooked food and fodder for animals in the worst affected village Baupur .The followers were also rendering help to the flood affected farmers suffering from ailments by bringing them to hospital in the motor boats for their treatments.
Sant Seechewal said that his followers have filled sand in more than twenty thousand bags to plug the breach when water level decreases in the river. The Distrct authorities are maintaining strict vigil at dhussi bundh which is intact position.
