Medical teams have been sent by boat to houses in the district to check on people who have been stuck in their homes for three days...
Digital Desk: Around 300 people were rescued from the isolated villages of Punjab's Kapurthala district, by the army and the NDRF teams on Thursday.
According to Karnail Singh, the deputy commissioner for Kapurthala, six teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Army used six boats to rescue those trapped by the floods and all those who were evacuated have been moved to relief camps.
He stated that the Beas River floods, caused by the Bhakra Dam's release of excess water, have affected a total of 22 villages, and hoped that things would get better by Friday.
According to Singh, some flood victims are residing within 'dhusi bundhs' (embankments) in 'deras' to tend to their fields, while some 40 individuals are reluctant to leave their marooned homes and their cattle.
After the surplus water from the Pong and Bhakra dams was released this week, some areas of the districts of Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Rupnagar, and Kapurthala were underwater. Teams from the Army and NDRF were also helping with rescue and relief efforts in several areas of the Gurdaspur district.
According to officials, medical teams have been sent by boat to houses in the district to check on people who have been stuck in their homes for three days and those who don't want to move out. To bring the level in their reservoirs to a safe limit, the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), which oversees the Bhakra and Pong dams, said on Wednesday that it would release excess water in a controlled manner for the next four to five days.
Following significant rain in their respective catchment areas, the Bhakra dam on the Sutlej River and the Pong dam on the Beas River, both in Himachal Pradesh, is overflowing.
Last month, a torrential downpour in Punjab between July 9 and 11 also hit many parts of the state, paralyzing daily life and flooding wide swaths of farms and other locations.
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