CM Nitish Kumar directs administration to stay vigilant as Ganga water level rises | Patna News – Times of India
Patna: CM Nitish Kumar on Friday took stock of the rising level of river Ganga at various ghats of Patna, and directed the district administration to remain alert, besides taking precautionary steps.
The CM, accompanied by senior state and Patna district officials, took the route along Atal Path and J P Ganga Path to inspect various ghats — Kangan Ghat, Kali Ghat, Gandhi Ghat and Krishna Ghat.On Friday, Ganga was flowing 10cm above the danger mark of 50.45 metre at Digha Ghat, while the flow was 54 cm above the danger level of 48.6 metre at Gandhi Ghat.
Also, the water level of Ganga is showing a rising trend all along its downstream up to Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district. At Hathidah, it was flowing 17 cm above the danger level of 41.76 metre, and 7cm above the danger level of 31.09 metre at Kahalgaon.
The Central Water Commission (CWC) forecast said that the water level of river Ganga would increase by 23 cm on Saturday morning, even as the level at Gandhi Ghat would fall by 4 cm around the same time.
The CM, accompanied by his principal secretary Deepak Kumar, water resources department additional chief secretary Chaitanya Prasad, Patna DM Chandrashekhar Singh and senior superintendent of police Rajiv Mishra among other senior officials, also took stock of the link road at Krishna Ghat under construction, which will connect Ashok Rajpath with J P Ganga Path. He asked the officials to get the work expedited for timely completion of the project.
Ganga apart, the water discharge through Birpur barrage in Kosi, Valmikinagar barrage across Gandak and Indrapuri barrage across Sone was indicating a rising trend. The water discharge in Kosi at Birpur was 1.65 lakh cusec, in Gandak through Valmikinagar was 1.25 lakh cusec and in Sone through Indrapuri barrage was 55,927 cusec on Friday afternoon.
Incidentally, heavy rainfall in the range of 41 mm to 51 mm is expected in some parts of the catchment areas of river Gandak in Nepal on Saturday, which, in turn, would lead to the rise in the water level of the river along its stretch in Bihar on Sunday.
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