60,000 visit Narmada dam in five days, 32 villages alerted for flood

Narmada, 22 July 2013

As many as 60,000 visitors have visited the site of overflowing Narmada dam till Sunday evening. 35,000 of them paid visit to the site on Sunday itself when overflow was almost four meter tall.

Traffic was so jam that VVIP visitors and police officials also had to face difficult time. For an average visitor, it took half an hour time to buy ticket, and two hours time to pass the distance of six kilometers.

Narmada battalion, and police team protecting the dam faced hard time while attempting to clear the traffic.

Meanwhile due to extra water released from the Narmada dam site, alert has been declared in 32 villages – 23 in Nandod taluka and 9 in Tilakwada taluka. Local people are asked to not to go near river Narmada.

Nandod taluka’s 23 villages: Sisodara, Bhadam, Mangrol, Suvar, Rampura, Rajpipla, Ori, Navapura, Dhamnachha, Dhanpor, Bhacharwada, Hajirpura, Shaherawa, Sanjroli, Karatha, Akteshwar, Surajvad, Gambhirpura, Poich, Rundh, Gora, Garudeshwar.

Tilakwada taluka’s 9 villages: Vasan, Vadia, Rengan, Chudeshwar, Tilakwada, Virpur, Gansingha, Varakhda, Bhavpura.

Narmada’s level touched 19 ft on Sunday evening at Golden bridge in Bharuch. It is expected to touch 22 ft level today. Dangour level is 24 ft, which if crossed, water logging shall be witnessed in low lying areas like Dandia bazar, Golden bridge slum and Furja.