{"id":45858,"date":"2023-07-15T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T08:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=45858"},"modified":"2023-07-15T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T08:12:55","slug":"punjab-flood-catastrophe-where-is-the-government-leaders-only-coming-to-click-photos-for-social-media-anger-grows-as-flood-situation-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/punjab-flood-catastrophe-where-is-the-government-leaders-only-coming-to-click-photos-for-social-media-anger-grows-as-flood-situation-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab flood catastrophe: ‘Where is the government, leaders only coming to click photos for social media’; anger grows as flood situation worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over 35 villages of Samana and Shutrana of Patiala district continue to be effected by the overflowing Ghaggar<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Chandigarh, July 15(Press Ki Taquat)<\/strong><\/p>\n

First it was Himachal Pradesh, now it’s Punjab. The damage due to the torrential rain is unimaginable.<\/p>\n

Pictures and videos from all over the state showed a scary scene of Punjab. The loss of life and property brought by the monsoon fury has caused immense pain and most of the towns in Punjab are submerged in water. The losses have run into thousands of crores.Most of the breaches are on the embankments of the Ghaggar in Sangrur and Patiala districts. The lack of skilled manpower has made the operations difficult, claimed an Irrigation Department officer \u201cWhile the work on repairing the breaches is mostly carried out during daytime, it usually gets undone at night by strong water currents,” he said.<\/p>\n

Many people across the state are saying that the Punjab Government should “get serious” in helping the people as the ruling regime leaders were only busy with photoshoots in the flood-affected areas, hinting at CM Bhagwant Mann who on Friday toured the flood areas of Sangrur district.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is the government, they are only coming to click photos for social media. Can\u2019t they see the situation is worsening, we will never recover from it,” says Ravjit Brar from Patiala.<\/p>\n

Local in boats are seen distributing food and others things to residents over the past several days after floodwaters inundated dozens of villages.<\/p>\n

Over 35 villages of Samana and Shutrana of Patiala district continue to be effected by the overflowing Ghaggar. Farmers are facing losses as water has flooded their fields and houses.<\/p>\n

Officials of the Drainage Department said the Tangri and Mankanda rivers were in spate. These are tributaries of the Ghaggar. Villages around Devigarh are the most affected due to flooding.<\/p>\n

Jasveer Singh, a resident of Phullad village, said, \u201cWe know it\u2019s tough to reach the spot where embankment has been breached at Phullad but the authorities should not surrender. The breach will keep on widening and create serious problems in coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Executive Engineer Gursharan Virk said accessibility to Phullad breach was very tough. \u201cThe plugging work has been going on at Makraud Sahib and Banarasi villages. There is no accessibility to the breach site at Phullad village. We need to devise a new strategy before restarting the work,\u201d said Virk.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over 35 villages of Samana and Shutrana of Patiala district continue to be effected by the overflowing Ghaggar Chandigarh, July 15(Press Ki Taquat) First it was Himachal Pradesh, now it’s Punjab. The damage due to the torrential rain is unimaginable. Pictures and videos from all over the state showed a scary scene of Punjab. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,10243,14176,1],"tags":[10756,24354,5299,7058,2073],"class_list":["post-45858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-chandigarh","category-cover-story","category-punjab","tag-bhagwant-mann","tag-gaggar-river","tag-cm","tag-flood","tag-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45860,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45858\/revisions\/45860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}