Discharge from dams continue toll mounts to 69. Flood had affected twelve agricultural districts ofWest Bengal and the State has suffered a colossal loss and damage worth more than rupees 1500 croresBose 1978 During the period from the third week of August to early first week of October 1978.
West Bengal India Flood Diary 1978
West Bengal a part of the Ganga delta has a long recorded history of flood.
1978 flood in west bengal. Flood in West Bengal. Sep 30 1978 Bearing all barriers and records of nearly a century the rivers of North India conspired with the monsoon to erode signs of civilization. The 1978 flood was caused by 72 hours of continuous and concentrated rainfall over the western river basin areas of the Bhagirathi from Pagla-Bansloi to the Ajay.
Impact of flood in the State within last fifty years. The first spell of flood during the. 6 September 1978 The city is in a state of emergency with telephone lines down bridges closed and the army deployed A street in Dhaka Bangladesh during the.
The resultant increase in the water level of the river caused huge flood which washed away all the embankments on the eastern side of the Bhagirathi. West Bengal had witnessed major floods in 1978 and consecutive floods in 1998 1999 and 2000. In the state only five years could be identified as flood free years within last fifty years 1959 to 2009 when only less than 500sqkm of area were inundated.
Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Maharashtra IFRC 15 19780087 FL-1978-0087-IND Flood 1978 7 3800 32000000 32000000 165000 Northeast US GovOFDA 16 19800074 FL-1980-0074-IND Flood 1980 8 1600 23 30000000 30000023 320000 Uttar Pradesh Bihar US GovOFDA 17 19970260 FL-1997-0260-IND Flood 1997 9 1442 0 0 29259000 29259000 Arunachal. Flood in West Bengal. Extensive flood occurrence are 1913 1942 1954 1965 1956 1959 1978 1993 1995 1999 2000.
The state did not have so many dams in 1978 she said. The water levels in all the major rivers in the Bhagirathi-Hooghly basin touched new heights. Discharge from dams continue toll mounts to 69 Overall nearly 52 lakh people have been affected till now.
All roads including the National Highway NH-34 which connects South Bengal with North Bengal were submerged. Some of the reasons for flood occurrence in West Bengal are. On Sunday the Army joined the relief and rescue operations in the state.
Referring to the project that Bengal has taken up along with the World Bank that will reform the lower basin of the Damodar river Banerjee said the state government was trying to come up with more dams to address the flood problem. 1Dtroducton Though flood arc not a rare phenomenon to the people of West Beigal the catastrophic floods during the last week of September 1978 in West Bengal was reported TO have been unprecedent in character on the points of magnitude extent. Landslides in mountain areas.
The intensity of the floods had surpassed even that of the landmark floods of 1978. All records of rainfall were broken. After last 1959 major flood the state suffered consecutively in 1978 1985 1998 1999 and 2000.
The intensity and the amount of rainfall in West Bengal are correspondingly quite high. - Issue Date. Floods and floodplains in west Bengal.
The State of West Bengal excluding the districts of Darjeeling Jalpaiguri Cooch Behar and Purulia was hit by three spells of floods. It is because the major part of land of the state is formed by the Ganga- Padma river system through the delta building process. Sweeping through the state of Haryana sections of the capital city of Delhi and through the landscape of Uttar Pradesh Bihar and West Bengal the fury of flood spelt death destruction and disease.
Flood is an adjunct being the main carrier of. Frequent breakage of the river banks and embankments. Blaming the DVC for releasing water during the monsoon leading to the man-made flood in West.
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