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Past Floods

Floods

Every year rains create havoc of floods in Uttar Pradesh

Out of India’s total flood prone area of 346 lac ha, 73 lac ha lies in State of UP
It has been estimated that 59 lac ha area can be protected by way of flood protection works
Floods affect 27 lac ha area and causes average yearly loss of Rs. 432 crore to the State.
AFFECTED DISTRICTS

WESTERN REGION :
Mathura, Agra, Bulandshahar & Badaun EASTERN REGION :
Gorakhpur, Deoria, Basti, Santkabir Nagar, Siddharth Nagar, Mau, Maharajganj, Kushi, Nagar, Azamgarh, Balia, Gonda & Bahraich
CENTRAL REGION :
Lucknow, Sitapur, Hardoi, Barabanki, Raebareli

LAND MARKS OF 1973 FLOOD (Property loss of Rs 688 crore)

Floods of 1973 affected 52 districts of the State inundating about 73.36 lac ha area (42.62 lac ha of cropped area), affecting 2,51,00,000 people of 45,666 villages.

S. No.	Area Name	Number of Affected villages	Affected Population	Total Area Affected	Total Affected Crop Area	Number of Houses Damaged	Flood Loss		Total Area (in Lakh Hectare)
S. No.	Area Name	Number of Affected villages	Affected Population	Total Area Affected	Total Affected Crop Area	Number of Houses Damaged	Human Loss	Animal Loss	Total Area (in Lakh Hectare)
	Western Region
1	Muzaffarnagar	-	8913	54543	92113	2784	-	2	10.76
2	Meerut	158	45039	99764	42443	1053	2	13	14.87
3	Buland Shahar	64	22857	21628	8298	40	-	-	12.08
4	Aligarh	8	140	170	166	25	-	-	-
5	Mathura	110	39093	23883	14332	668	-	-	9.38
6	Agra	35	2714	6000	741	13	-	-	11.90
7	Etah	127	96191	91207	38445	523	-	-	10.97
8	Farrukhabad	407	116392	206338	71205	3625	4	13	11.52
9	Etawah	116	9992	26728	12057	-	-	-	10.07
10	Bijnor	444	119641	151461	61509	7463	13	4	11.54
11	Bareilly	934	231103	175880	84999	909	-	-	10.17
12	Pilibhit	126	6065	128000	34408	39	-	-	8.64
13	Shahjahanpur	672	270106	122864	78666	2164	2	-	11.28
14	Muradabad	735	201758	334032	174444	19069	1	1	14.62
15	Badaun	685	274892	361646	147981	3681	2	-	12.78
16	Rampur	561	238165	162414	144836	7350	-	-	5.73
	Eastern Zone
17	Varanasi	358	48147	26593	14218	16	-	-	12.57
18	Mirjapur	344	138225	121800	38540	73	-	-	27.96
19	Jaunpur	495	194952	125000	41155	713	4	1	8.87
20	Gazipur	534	312733	125620	71971	15	2	3	8.35
21	Balia	1564	695577	304232	182463	17226	12	2	7.56
22	Gorakhpur	1478	750483	392171	222256	29910	17	8	15.56
23	Deoria	3509	2600000	919097	722470	50882	35	24	13.35
24	Basti	3832	970016	498628	403707	23787	8	1	18.05
25	Azamgarh	1043	675753	228565	409530	2103	14	1	14.21
26	Gonda	-	-	28700	98693	1200	-	-	18.10
27	Behraich	242	50000	63000	54208	489	-	1	16.76
28	Faizabad	721	148400	23360	64122	825	15	-	10.90
29	Sultanpur	213	174995	26284	26284	175	-	-	10.96
30	Prataphgarh	980	712084	228658	186536	288	-	-	9.33
31	Allahabad	537	205922	152391	58197	2981	2	-	17.92
	Central Zone
32	Kanpur	157	13481	26958	7289	390	-	-	15.08
33	Fatehpur	124	25351	33858	82224	15	-	-	10.39
34	Kheri	137	36605	33207	26860	255	4	1	19.02
35	Sitapur	188	105000	50000	13000	-	-1	-	14.31
36	Hardoi	448	290398	242755	96212	2477	2	3	14.80
37	Lucknow	70	30257	5540	3212	130	1	-	6.20
38	Unnao	476	350000	73612	73612	2595	1	1	11.35
39	Raibariely	1283	874099	831593	270988	7198	6	6	11.25
40	Barabanki	242	92823	101291	52242	1600	1	-	11.96
	Bundelkhand Zone
41	Jalaun	83	23691	44892	20123	-	-	-	11.28
42	Hamirpur	112	23537	71053	38340	100	-	-	17.76
43	Banda	265	118230	190103	77110	465	-	-	18.86

Flood Affected Area in State & Detailed of constructioned Drains For Drainage

Total Flood Affected Area	73.06 lac ha
Western Area	35.42 lac ha
Eastern Area	23.71 lac ha
Central Area	6.41 lac ha
Bundelkhand Area	7.60 lac ha
Expected Area to get protected from Flood	58.72 lac ha
Constructed Drain (Total)	40225.38 km
Trunk Drains	7081.80 km
Other Drains	33143.58 km

Resterotion of Capacity of Drains & Flood Protection

Resteration of Capacity of Trunk Drains
Total Length of Drains	40225.38 km
Total Length of Trunk Drains	7080.80 km
Other Drain.	33144.58 km
Length of trunk Drains restored upto year 2000-2001	1582.60 km
Progress of Restoration of capacity of trunk drains up to 5/2001.	140.00 km

Flood Protection Schemes : 335 Flood Protection Schemes Approved by Technical Advinory Committee (Flood) (From T-111 to T-122)
Sl. No.	Detail of Works	No.	Cost in Lac	Length in Km	Benefitted Area (H.A.)
1	Marginal Bundh	36	14681.26	616.38	105706
2	Erosian Work	266	25074.41	-	-
3	Drainage	28	7167.96	605.02	41212
4	City Protection	2	2830.75	-	-
5	Other Works	3	562.61	-	-
	Total	335	50317.00	-	146918

Proposal of clearance of Trunk Drain during year 2000-2001 Progress

Name of Chief Engineer	Programme of Proposed work in 2001-02		Physical Progress upto 07-6-01 (km)	Budget Allotment during year 2001-02 (Lac Rs)
Name of Chief Engineer	Physical in Km	Financial in Lac	Physical Progress upto 07-6-01 (km)	Budget Allotment during year 2001-02 (Lac Rs)
Gandak	46.70	41.50	11.20	16.60
Sone	182.44	104.71	63.20	41.90
Ramganga	31.30	42.00	30.15	17.00
Sarda Sahayak	103.30	103.30	45.70	41.30
Sarda	55.60	71.64	36.90	28.60
Ganga	245.25	287.55	85.65	189.30
East Ganga	7.40	7.00	3.50	2.80
Grand Total	671.99	657.43	276.30	257.50

List of Marginal Embankmants Riverwise

S.N	Name of River	No. of Marginal Embankments	Length Marginal Embankments (Km)	Benefitted Area (HA)
1	Old Rapti	15	115.7	33785
2	Rapti	74	592.0	139968
3	Kara Ghonghi	9	110.1	21925
4	Aami	1	1.3	10
5	Ghaghara	36	371.4	175925
6	Manwar	6	69.2	18769
7	Kuwanon	10	83.8	15245
8	Vanganga	5	24.2	8556
9	Gurra River	8	85.3	11800
10	Small Gandak	27	124.7	9383
11	Rohin River	16	117.6	15264
12	Chandan River	1	16.0	700
13	Big Gandak	18	131.7	265903
14	Ganga River	28	156.5	44975
15	Tones River	10	78.3	22060
16	Yamuna River	33	331.9	37401
17	Hindon River	1	19.4	4900
18	Kali River	1	4.6	150
19	Gomti River	3	14.7	2995
20	Solani River	2	10.3	3745
21	Drain	27	83.4	5850
	Total	339	3020.6	10,49,146
		339	3021	10.49 lac ha

Irrigation Department Uttar Pradesh, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow.

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