KANPUR: The Ganga river continues to flow at the warning mark while passing through the city. On Thursday evening, the river was flowing at 113 metre mark. At 8 am on Thursday, the water level was at 113.04 metre. However, there had been a slight dip in the water level yet it was at the warning point. It was on Wednesday, the water level of Ganga had crossed the warning mark.
For the first time in the month of October, water level in the Ganga had passed beyond the warning mark.
The surge in the water level of the Ganga was due to extremely heavy rainfall in the hills of Uttarakhand. Around this time of the year, the Ganga flows at a much lower level than the current gauge. But this year, the scenario is very different.
The increase in the water level in the Ganga has already caused loss to the crops. Crops in low-lying Katri region and areas in Shuklaganj have got washed away.
Vegetable crops and flowering crops have suffered damage in the Katri villages. Some of the villages of this area include Lakshmanpurwa, Durgapurwa, Shivdeenpurwa.
Increased water level has caused submerging of ghat stairs at Parmat and Sarsaiyya ghat. The relief being that the water level had slightly receded and there are hopes that the water level may start declining.
The increase in water level in the Ganga is resulting in discharge of large quantities of water from Ganga Barrage into its downstream. The water discharged from the barrage would result in an increase in water level in Prayagraj and Varanasi.
A whopping four lakh cusecs of water was released from the barrage into the Ganga downstream on Thursday. Similar quantities of water has been released into Ganga in the past few days ever since the water level was increasing.
