Tikapur, July 8: Normal life has been affected in Kailali due to floods following incessant rainfall.
Some families have been displaced
after floods entered the settlement in Bhajani of Kailali on Sunday night. The
municipality and the locals have jointly shifted the people of the risky areas
to postal roads and high-placed buildings throughout the night.
Krishna Dhamala, a local, said some
families in Bhajani have left the settlement overnight and moved to the
streets. The people living in the settlement sat on the postal road with
children and livestock at night due to the rise in water level in rivers and
rivulets.
The flood has inundated almost all
the wards of Bhajani. All the houses in ward-8 have been inundated.
"Hundreds of families have moved to the streets and high-rise houses with
their belongings after the settlements were waterlogged following incessant
rains", he said. The southern and eastern parts of Kailali have been
inundated due to the floods.
The settlements of Tikapur,
Bhajani, Janaki and Joshipur of Kailali near the rivers and rivulets have been
inundated due to the rise in water level in the River Chure and the Karnali
River. Some families have been displaced in Tikapur municipalit
Disaster Management Section Chief
of Tikapur Nirmala Chaudhary said that 65 houses of Parseni, Bhartapur and
Bhagwanpur of ward-6 have been inundated due to the flood in Patharaya
River.
Ward no. 2, 5, 7 and 8 of Tikapur
are at risk of inundation with the water level in the Karnali River increases.
Similarly, Joshipur rural municipality has also been inundated due to incessant
rain.
Chief of the disaster management
section of Joshipur rural municipality, Sita Singh said water from the Kada
River has entered Bhittariya and inundated it.
Most of Janaki's wards have been
inundated and some families have been displaced.
Disaster management section chief
Netra Prasad Jaisi said many settlements in ward 4 and 7 have been inundated.
"There are 11 families living in Girdharpur of ward 4. There are 15
families living in Farela of ward 7," Jaisi said.
Dozens of settlements in Janaki are
waterlogged. The municipalities in the area have intensified their work such as
cleaning drains after the floods ran through the settlements. They have been
engaged in the work of opening the jammed drains and draining out water in the
submerged areas.
Information Officer at the District
Administration Office, Shivaraj Joshi, shared various places in the district
have been inundated due to rain so the teams are being mobilized to minimize
the damage. (RSS)