Water level of rivers rising in UP, KRS reservoir full

New Delhi, July 17 (UNI) Water level of prominent rivers in Uttar Pradesh was slowly rising today following rains as the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) reservoir in Karnataka across river Cauvery touched its maximum level.

In Bahraich, UP, land erosion by Ghagra has affected normal life, and several villages are marooned.

In the last 24 hrs, Varanasi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Faizabad, Moradabad and Bareilly divisions received medium rainfall.

Gonda district received the maximum rainfall at 6 mm, followed by Dabri (Shahjahanpur) 4 mm, Kanpur 3 mm, Rae Bareli 2 mm and Bahraich 2 mm.

Light rains in Capital today brought a sigh of relief on the faces of the people after a brief lull following the arrival of the South West Monsoon here last Sunday.

In the Capital the rain lasted for a brief while and about 0.7 mm of rainfall was recorded till 1430 hrs.

The coming week could bring more rains to Delhi with the weathermen forecasting an increase in rainfall activity in North West India during the next few days.

The low pressure area over Jharkhand and adjoining north Orissa which led to fairly widespread rains over Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and East Madhya Pradesh in the last few days, is likely to move in a west-northwesterly direction in the next few days.

The rainfall activity over Jharkhand and Orissa is likely to decrease after 24 hours, it could increase in East Rajasthan and areas of Northwest India, including Delhi.

In Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh sultry weather conditions persisted even as parts of Himachal Pradesh went dry, and certain areas in Kullu, Bilaspur Mandi and Kinnaur districts experienced rain. However, rain eluded Shimla which remained draped in monsoon clouds during the day.

In Karnataka, the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) reservoir across river Cauvery touched its maximum level, consequent to which authorities released more than 15,000 cusecs of water into the river.

Cauvery Neeravari Nigama Limited Executive Engineer K J Vijay Kumar told UNI at KRS that the water level at the dam was maintained at 124.30 ft as against the full level of 124.80 ft.

He said flood warning had been issued to the people living along the banks of the river to move to safer places. Besides, visitors have been barred from strolling on the dam for a couple of days, he added.

In Kolkata, the heavy downpour caused much harrassment as there was waterlogging in almost all parts of the city.

However, the humidity level has increased with relative humidity recorded at a maximum of 97 per cent.

The monsoon is quite active in the state and it would rain regularly in the coming days.

The southwest monsoon has been active in Orissa and east Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh since yesterday.

Heavy to very heavy rains have occurred at many places in Orissa.

Very light rains have occurred at isolated places in Arunachal Pradesh, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu.

Rain or thundershowers have occurred at most places in coastal Karnataka and at many places in Gangetic west Bengal and Jharkahand, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Kerala and at a few places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Vidrbha, interior Karnataka, Andaman and Nicobar islands and Lakshadweep.

UNI Team AD RP ND1928