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i haven’t seen anyone talking about this and i’m genuinely genuinely horrified that i didn’t find this out until a couple hours ago so. tws for death and covid related trauma during the UP panchayat polls under the cut. long post. sb this please.

At least 700 state government school employees on panchayat poll duty succumbed to Covid in Uttar Pradesh this month. The state government has denied the allegations and said it has no proof that the teachers died during poll duty. The Allahabad high court also criticized the administration and SEC over violation of Covid protocol during the polls.

The union chief said a maximum of 33 teachers died in Azamgarh district, 31 in Gorakhpur, 25 in Prayagraj and 20 each in Lucknow and Lakhimpur Kheri districts. “Many of these lives could have been saved had the SEC taken note of our April 12 letter in which I pointed out that Covid protocol was not being followed during training,” he said. The government denied these allegations.

State minister of state (independent charge) for basic education, Satish Chandra Dwivedi, said it was wrong to say that the teachers on poll duty died of Covid, because “how do we know that teachers were not infected when they came for election duty? And how do we know that teachers did not get infected after returning from election duty?” (Source: The Hindustan Times)

ScoopWhoop Unscripted documented and posted a video (x) of their journalist Prabhat Kumar interviewing several families about the death of their loved ones (closed captions in English are available).

Some of these families even claimed that after some teachers got tested positive and were hospitalized, they still got called, to demand to put them back on duty. The callers were informed of the situation, and a few even got calls even after the employees were pronounced dead. In it, (at time stamp 6:00) he also manages to call the District Magistrate of Barabanki to question if this kind of information about the mismanagement of the situation was known, and if it was, what steps were taken to tackle it.

The DM simply denied having had any information regarding the subject, and claimed that the safety protocols were all practiced and maintained. He disconnected the call before Prabhat got to ask more than two questions.

Some screenshots of Garima, the wife of Ajay Kumar Tiwari - one of the teachers that passed, from one of the multiple families interviewed in the video:

Her sister in law, Uma Tiwari chimes in later:

A couple more links:

FactChecker - Timeline: How UP Panchayat Polls Resulted in Deaths of Teachers

The Hindu - “He died because of the election,” said Mr. Ram Krishna, a graduation student in Allahabad University, son of Pankaj Pandey, one of the deceased. “The election should not have taken place now. It could have been delayed or held along with the Bihar polls last year.”

The government needs to be held accountable. Try to spread this like wildfire, though i thoroughly nderstand if you don’t want to. Only through exposure can we fucking tell them their actions are seen and they are being judged. Only through exposure can we force them to own up.

#i am enraged that no one is talking about this. dont fucking touch me.#up panchayat polls #covid 19 #coronavirus #corona virus #india #uttar pradesh

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First COVID-19 allied death reported in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

First COVID-19 allied death reported in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur: On Wednesday Uttar Pradesh noted it first death due to deadly coronavirus. A 25year old man, who died on Monday displayed him positive for the COVID-19. The man belongs from the Basti area on Uttar Pradesh and was admitted to BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur. […]

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234 more Covid deaths, 4,844 fresh cases reported in UP

LUCKNOW: With 234 more coronavirus-related fatalities in Uttar Pradesh, the death toll rose to 19,209, while 4,844 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 16,69,891. Of the new deaths, Jhansi recorded 21 fatalities, followed by Lucknow 18, Varanasi 15, Ayodhya 14, Agra 11 and 10 each from Gorakhpur, Saharanpur, Lakhimpur-Khiri and Basti. As far as fresh cases are concerned, state capital…

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Uncritical support for Modi paved the way for India’s COVID-19 crisis

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28 April 2021

A man wearing personal protective equipment runs past burning funeral pyres during a mass cremation of COVID-19 casualties at a crematorium in Delhi, on 26 April 2021. The next day, India recorded 3,286 deaths, its highest number of COVID-19 fatalities so far, taking the total number of deaths in the country since the start of the pandemic to 201,187.

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India is a veritable chamber of horrors right now. Every day appears to mark a new record-highest number of daily cases, with the country witnessing 3,52,991 new COVID-19 cases and 2,812 deaths on 25 April. Patients are dying due to a lack of oxygen in hospitals—at least 24 patients died in a hospital in Nashik, in Maharashtra, on 21 April, and another 25 died in Delhi, the national capital, two days later. The next day, on 24 April, the solicitor general Tushar Mehta lied to the Supreme Court that the central government had “ensured that nobody in the country was left without oxygen.” Meanwhile, oxygen tankers are being blocked by state governments, and people have resorted to looting cylinders. This medical horror unfolding in the country was inevitable, given the leaders and the ideologies that India chose for herself.

It is also an experience of déjà vu. In August 2017, over 60 new-born babies, with chests the size of an adult human’s palm, died in less a week in a district hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state, led by the chief minister Ajay Singh Bisht—more commonly known as Adityanath—denied that the deaths were a result of a shortage of oxygen, and maintains this narrative till date. A paediatrician at the hospital, Kafeel Khan, had accused the state government of not paying the hospital’s oxygen supplier, which led to the shortage and the deaths.

The state then arrested Khan and led a farcical investigation against him, as evidenced in the order releasing him on bail and the departmental inquiry absolving him of negligence. But the state did not conduct post-mortem examinations of the infants, did not hand over their medical records to their families, and sought to erase its negligence. As if the injustice did not matter until it was provable on paper. This greed and cruelty normalised under the BJP leadership is cancerous, and the scale at which it has infected the country is on display during this ongoing second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government has taken the difficult task of organising a pandemic response in a poor country like India and made it impossible. In April last year, after the pandemic hit India, the Modi administration extended a brutal lockdown without consulting the nation’s top scientists, adding an economic as well as humanitarian crisis to the medical emergency. As I reported for The Caravan earlier this month, the prime minister did not consult the national taskforce of India’s leading scientists in February and March this year either, despite the surge in cases.

After imposing the lockdown, Modi then invoked a draconian colonial-era law, the Epidemics Act of 1897—enacted during the bubonic plague of 1896—that focuses not on controlling the disease, but on cracking down on its subjects and suspending civil liberties. The Modi administration, of course, presented a narrative that it was using the law only in instances where healthcare workers had been targeted. As noted previously in The Caravan, the centre did not, however, enact several better legislations introduced the previous year that sought to protect healthcare workers.

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The lockdown, Indians were told, was to flatten the curve. Lav Agarwal, the joint secretary in the union health ministry, had stated shortly after that a Rs 15,000-crore package by the centre would be used for, among other things, “building resilient national and state health systems for future disease outbreaks.” But tenders for oxygen plants were not released till October 2020—eight months into the pandemic. That month, the centre issued tenders for 150 oxygen plants. As of April 2021, only 33 of them have been set up.

As India suffered its most devastating COVID-19 surge, its political parties and leaders—including Modi and his top lieutenant, the home minister Amit Shah—spent the last month focussed on an ongoing, eight-phased, gruelling blood sport of an election in West Bengal. The prime minister boasted of the large rallies he commanded—and gleefully catcalled the state’ incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee during one of them—with no apparent concern about the pandemic still ravaging the country. The polling in West Bengal began on 27 March. Within two weeks, the state recorded its highest-ever single-day spike with 5,892 new cases recorded on 14 April. Eleven days later, the state recorded 15,889 cases, and its capital city of Kolkata reported a positivity rate of approximately 50 percent.

On 21 March, amid the rising second wave, India's national dailies saw full-page ads in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited people to attend the Maha Kumbh in Uttarakhand.

Modi’s apparent lack of concern about the pandemic did not stop at electioneering. On 21 March, India’s national dailies showed a front-page full-size advertisement showing Modi and the Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat welcoming devotees to the Maha Kumbh, a weeks-long Hindu religious festival. The previous day, Rawat had proclaimed, “Nobody will be stopped in the name of Covid-19 as we are sure the faith in God will overcome the fear of the virus.” Devotees attended in the millions, and soon began testing positive by the thousands. On 1 April, the day the super-spreader event began, the state recorded a total of 1,863 cases. On 26 April, it recorded 35,864 cases.

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The pervasive grief felt by Indian citizens is only matched by the knowledge that they are on their own. On 20 April, in his first national broadcast after the onset of the second COVID-19 wave in the country, the prime minister appeared to confirm this knowledge without any sense of irony. “I request young colleagues to create small committees in their societies, localities and apartments and help others in following the COVID discipline,” Modi said. “If we do this, then governments will not need to create containment zones, impose curfew or lockdown.” The prime minister did little to explain or reassure the citizens about what his government was doing to help them.

As Modi noted in his address, without acknowledging his own failure, Indian citizens have come together to save themselves. All across social-media platforms and WhatsApp groups, users are inundated with desperate requests and leads to find their own oxygen cylinders, medications, tele-consult with doctors, and find a hospital bed. To the best of their availabilities, they respond with leads, noting the date and time that the information was verified. But as citizens discover with alarming regularity, there are no beds, no medicines, and no hospitals. There are no hearse vans to carry the dead to the graveyards. There is no wood to burn the pyres.

India's failed pandemic response is an inevitable consequence of the blind support, over two elections, to the anti-intellectual government led by Modi and the BJP. As I recently argued in The Atlantic, this is the greatest moral failure of our generation. It is India’s collective moral failure before it is the BJP’s political failure.

The blame for this cannot stop at one man, no matter how unfit for office he may be. It lies just as much at the feet of people who voted for this incompetence twice thinking it will never affect them, assuming their bubbles of concrete will keep them safe from the chaos being inflicted on others. The structure and actions of the Modi administration has stood in mockery of the citizens who ever placed their faith in it. And yet, the leaders of this administration have been rewarded with blind hero-worship, and that was the last blow to Indian democracy.

Since 2002, I’ve seen Modi rise to power with a dropped jaw. His career is a monument to treachery, to the power of majoritarianism in India, and to the horrors forgiven by the country to protect those who champion such majoritarianism. He has spent people’s lives as pocket change as he failed his way upwards, into the highest office in the land.

Throughout his career, Modi has shown an insatiable appetite to jail and threaten his own citizens, and let them die on his watch without accepting any responsibility. His two terms have been an era of derangement, through which he has asked us, the people of India, to turn a blind eye to the bloodletting in Kashmir, rampant gang-rapes of women, lynchings of Muslim minorities, caste atrocities against Dalits, and the spectre of detention camps in Assam. As if all of this was not bad enough, in this process, we have also made a Faustian bargain in signing up to hate our own neighbours, friends, and colleagues.

Today, as graveyards run out of space, we cannot pin it on Modi without a critical self-inventory of the role BJP voters played in this tragic story. It is a difficult conversation to have in a country filled with strife but it can no longer be avoided. Neither can the link between morals and politics be evaded.

The BJP secured 37.4 percent of the votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections—the highest ever received by the party in its history. A nation gets the government it deserves and, in small and big ways, every one of BJP’s voters who could make their peace with poor people dying in the name of economic prosperity contributed to this tragedy, particularly the upper castes, upper class and middle class.

The kind of people who quote scriptures from the Bhagavad Gita and discuss theories on free-market capitalism as they short-change their oppressed-caste domestic workers whom they refuse to give weekly offs. The kind who do not see the inhumanity of children begging at their BMW’s window as they drive to work, where they will not speak up against systemic corruption. The kind who find women “angry” when they bring up the sexual violence and turn a blind eye to the rampant practice of manual scavenging prevalent in the country.

Most of all, with their hearts full of cynicism and indifference, and theirs sleeves stained in blood, they award certificates of nationalism based on religion, gender and caste. They preferred WhatsApps that repeated convenient falsehoods over factual news reports that showcased the unpleasant realities. Their collective will and wilful apathy—towards the poor, the sick, the minorities—is the cement that holds this government together. They valourise greed, demonise the fight for social justice, and advise us to remain calm, after handing over power to a party that has no interest, and no skill, in the art of governance.

They handed power to the BJP, and now they chastise those who did not for bringing politics into everyday conversations, and without irony want us keep things positive instead of focussing on the viral apocalypse we are in. By aiding, abetting or ignoring one injustice at a time, they helped Modi subvert democracy in favour of authoritarian regimes. Through their fogged lens of good intentions and morally neutral positions, they are directly responsible for degrading out institution—courts, police stations, and hospitals.

The rich and middle-class citizen was entirely alright watching children choke to death in Gorakhpur, assuming that would never happen to him. Once the pandemic levelled the system, and the privileged found themselves without privilege for the first time, they fled, with no regard to the medical apartheid unfolding in hospitals created for the poor. They now act shocked when confronted with the fragility of their bubbles.

The cynical political decisions taken in the past seven years have come back to haunt us this last month. We have, as people, been wilfully unaware of the state of our health infrastructure for so long because it was claiming lives that did not matter to us. That bubble has now burst.

Our small and big moral failures have added up to design India’s pandemic response. On 27 April, India recorded 3,286 deaths, its highest number of COVID-19 fatalities so far, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 201,187. We created this veritable chamber of horrors

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Uttar Pradesh issues new Covid guidelines as cases rise. Check full list

Image Source : PTI UP CM Yogi Adityanath chaired a meeting in view of rising coronavirus cases at BRD medical college in Gorakhpur. Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday issued new Covid guidelines in view of the increasing coronavirus cases in the state. On April 11, Uttar Pradesh recorded 48 deaths taking coronavirus fatality count to 9,085 while 12,787 new cases took infection tally to…

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Uttar Pradesh: Covid count inches to 5 lakh

With 2,247 fresh cases of Covid reported in the past 24 hours, the cumulative number of cases has reached close to 5 lakh on Sunday. At the same time, 26 fresh deaths — five in Meerut, two in Gorakhpur — were reported in the state, taking the death toll to 7,206. Out of the total cases, 4,67,108 patients have recovered — 94 per cent recovery rate. In the past 24 hours, 1,858 patients were…

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3,665 new coronairus cases in 24 hours, UP toll set to cross 6,000

By: Express News Service | Lucknow | October 4, 2020 4:03:04 am

Of the total deaths, 61 including seven in Lucknow and four each in Gorakhpur and Varanasi were reported in the past 24 hours. (Representational)

For the second consecutive day, Uttar Pradesh reported less than 4,000 new positive cases of the Covid infection with an average…

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Health workers in PPE kit playing with a child at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) Village sports complex, temporarily converted into a COVID care center, in New Delhi.Coronavirus update: Recording its worst-ever single-day spike of 95,529 coronavirus cases, India's tally has surged past the 4.4-million mark to 4,465,863. With the latest addition, the country has recorded 612,251 cases in seven days alone. According to data provided by Worldometer, India has recorded more new Covid-19 cases than any other country in the past two weeks. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu account for 62% of total active coronavirus cases in the country. India's cumulative tests for detection of the virus has surpassed five million, while tests per million have risen from 6,396 on July 1 to 37,470. On Wednesday, Maharashtra and Delhi recorded their highest single-day spike of 23,816 and 4,039 cases, respectively. The national capital's tally has topped 200,000 mark now. However, despite a sharp surge in Covid cases in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party government has ruled out the possibility of another lockdown, asserting that the economy 'cannot be kept shut for eternity. Coronavirus vaccine update: The central drug regulator (DCGI) has issued a showcause notice to Serum Institute of India (SII) for not informing it about pharma giant AstraZeneca pausing the clinical trials of the Oxford vaccine candidate for Covid-19 in other countries and also for not submitting casualty analysis of the "reported serious adverse events". The notice was issued following reports that human trials of the most promising Covid-19 vaccine candidate, being developed by the University of Oxford, had been put on hold after a UK participant had an adverse reaction to it. World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 28,011,870. While 20,082,808 have recovered, 907,248 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 6,548,737 cases. It is followed by India which has 4,465,863, Brazil (4,199,332) and Russia (1,041,007). Stay tuned for coronavirus LIVE updatesCATCH ALL THE LIVE UPDATESAuto Refresh03:39 PM Yogi asks officials to focus on districts reporting high Covid-19 casesUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to focus more on Lucknow, Prayagraj, Kanpur and Gorakhpur as these districts are reporting a higher number of Covid-19 cases. He also asked them to ensure all Covid-19 hospitals have full staff. "All Covid-19 hospitals should function with full capacity and where ever needed, manpower should be increased. Specialist doctors should be appointed in L2 (Level-2) Covidhospitals and it should be ensured that serious patients do not have any problem in admission in these hospitals," Adityanath said.03:30 PM Wearing mask mandatory for candidates taking civil services preliminary exam on Oct 4: UPSCWearing of mask/face cover is mandatory for all candidates. Candidates without mask/face cover will not be allowed entry into the venue. Further, candidates are allowed to bring their own hand sanitizer in transparent bottles, the Commission said in a statement issued on Wednesday. Candidates have to follow Covid-19 norms of social distancing' as well as personal hygiene' inside the examination halls/rooms as well as in the premises of the venue, it said. This year's preliminary test was earlier scheduled to be held on May 31, but was deferred due to the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.03:20 PM India putting up well-planned fight against coronavirus: Amit ShahTerming coronavirus as an unprecedented challenge, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said India is putting up a well-planned fight against the pandemic under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. The BJP leader asked people to take necessary precautions until a vaccine is found. "Coronavirus is an unprecedented challenge for us and for the entire mankind. But we are fighting against it in a well-planned manner under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the whole world has recognised our efforts," he said. 03:11 PM Don't take coronavirus lightly; people need to wear face masks: PMPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged people not to take coronavirus lightly and follow the rule of wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing till scientists develop a vaccine. "I have certain expectations from you. That is to follow the rule of wearing a mask and Do Gaj ki Doori (a distance of two yards). "Be safe and remain healthy. Take care of senior citizens in the family. These things are important. Do not take coronavirus lightly," Modi said. Modi also said, till scientists develop a vaccine for Covid-19, "this social vaccine is the best way to save ourselves from coronavirus. This is the only solution."03:02 PM Tripura reports 535 new Covid-19 cases, 6 fresh fatalitiesAs many as 535 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in Tripura on Thursday, pushing the state's tally to 17,274, a health official said. Tripura's coronavirus death toll rose to 167 as six more patients succumbed to the infection, he said. West Tripura district, under which Agartala falls, accounted for 88 of the 167 Covid-19 deaths reported in the state so far. The state now has 7,092 active coronavirus cases, while 9,993 people have recovered from the disease so far, and 22 patients have migrated to other states, the official said.02:50 PM Covid-19: Chouhan talks to Maha CM about oxygen supply to MPMadhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday spoke to his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray about the supply of oxygen, which he said has been halted from the western state amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking to reporters here, Chouhan said shortage of oxygen cylinders was a cause for concern and Thackeray has assured him of maintaining the supply to the state. "The shortage of oxygen was worrying me a lot. I spoke to Uddhav Thackeray and requested him not to stop the supply at this difficult time," the chief minister said. 02:36 PM 'Test, treatment, containment' govt's motto to deal with Covid-19Test, treatment and containment is the motto of the government of India for dealing with Covid-19 pandemic, said BJP leader Anil Jain on Thursday. "People know that the steps that were taken were necessary and if not taken on time, we would have been in a far worse situation. Test, treatment and containment is our motto, and we are doing that. The world has recognised our efforts," said Jain. He accepted that the spread of Covid-19 in the country is increasing, but added that the capability of the country to deal with the pandemic is also increasing.02:30 PM Record 141 new cases push Mizoram's Covid-19 tally to 1,333Mizoram reported its highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases on Thursday as 141 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. The northeastern state had registered its previous highest single-day spike of 69 coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The fresh infections have taken the state's caseload to 1,333, he said. As many as 94 of the 141 fresh infections are reportedly local transmission cases, the official said, adding that contacts of the new patients have been traced.02:22 PM More than 74% of total active cases are in 9 most affected statesMaharashtraKarnatakaAndhra PradeshUttar PradeshTamil NaduTelanganaAssamOdishaChhattisgarh 02:16 PM Nearly 60% of the cumulative cases have been reported in 5 statesThe ministry said that 60 per cent of the cumulative cases have been reported inMaharashtra (9,67,349)Andhra Pradesh (5,27,512)Tamil Nadu (4,80,524)Karnataka (4,21,730)Uttar Pradesh (2,85,041).

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Flood fury in Assam, Bihar; nearly 37 lakh affected

NEW DELHI: There was no respite from the devastating floods in Assam and Bihar on Friday with three more deaths reported from the northeastern state, and nearly 37 lakh people severely affected so far. In Assam, nearly 27 lakh people across 33 districts have been affected by the deluge. The deaths were reported from the Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Morigaon districts. The death toll due to floods and landslides this year has risen to 122. Nearly a million people have been affected in Bihar, where the Gandak river breached two embankments at three places, leaving several areas inundated. There was no report of loss of life so far. According to the state disaster management department’s bulletin, a total of 9.60 lakh people have been affected by floodwaters in 529 panchayats of 74 blocks in 10 districts. President Ram Nath Kovind spoke to Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and expressed solidarity with the affected people of the state. He flagged off nine trucks carrying Red Cross relief supplies for the flood and Covid-19 affected people of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh from the Rashtrapati Bhavan. In Arunachal Pradesh, incessant rainfall over the past couple of days has snapped road connectivity to several districts, besides resulting in a flood-like situation, as per official reports. Landslides triggered by continuous rains have completely destroyed important road links in various parts of West Siang district, one such report said. Meanwhile, the India meteorological department (IMD) said fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls are likely in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from July 26-28, and in Punjab and Haryana between July 27-29. The intensity and distribution of rainfall is very likely to increase over sub-Himalyan West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh with occurrence of widespread rainfall activity along with isolated heavy to extremely heavy rainfall during July 26-29, it said. In Bihar, the Gandak river turned turbulent following discharge of 4,36,500 lakh cusecs of water from Valmikinagar barrage on July 21 due to heavy rainfall on July 19, 20 and 21 in the catchment area of Nepal. Due to a heavy downpour, 80,000 to 1,00,000 cusecs of water was discharged in the river, Jha said. The Gandak river water has also overtopped National Highway 28 in Gopalganj due to the breaches, disrupting vehicular movement between Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and the districts of Muzaffarpur, East Champaran and West Champaran in Bihar. Thirteen teams of the NDRF and eight of the state disaster response fund (SDRF) are involved in the rescue operations as part of which 93,891 people have been evacuated from the marooned areas so far. The districts affected by the floods are West Champaran, East Champaran, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Supaul, Kishanganj, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj, and Khagaria. Several rivers such as Baghmati, Burhi Gandak, Kamlabalan, Lalbakeya, Adhwara, Khiroi and Mahananda are flowing above the danger level while the Ganga river is flowing below the danger mark at all locations, including two places at Gandhi ghat and Digha ghat in Patna. In the northern part of the country, partly cloudy skies kept the mercury in check in Delhi, and only sporadic rains are predicted in the next two to three days. The weather office said widespread rains are likely in northwest India, including Delhi-NCR, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. On Friday, the safdarjung observatory, which provides representative figures for the city, recorded a maximum temperature of 35.4 degrees celsius, a notch more than normal. Humidity level shot up to 94 per cent. According to IMD data, the safdarjung observatory has recorded 225 mm rainfall in July so far, which is 44 per cent more than the normal of 156.4 mm. The Palam and Lodhi Road weather stations have also recorded 31 and 58 per cent more rains in July. Several parts of Uttar Pradesh received light to moderate rains as well. Dharohra (Kheri) recorded 5 cm of rainfall; Hata (Kushinagar), Mawana( Meerut) and Shardanagar( Kheri) 4 cm each; Bah, Dhampur ( Bijnore) 3 cm each while Dudhi (Sonbhadra), Elgin Bridge (Barabanki) and Turtipar 2 cm each, according to the weather office in Lucknow. In Punjab and Haryana, the maximum temperatures hovered close to normal limits and the weather remained dry. Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, recorded a maximum of 34.9 degrees celsius. In Haryana, Hisar recorded a high of 34.9 degrees celsius, two notches below the normal. Narnaul recorded a high of 33.2 degrees celsius, down three notches, while Ambala recorded a high of 35 degrees celsius. Karnal recorded a maximum temperature of 33.8 degrees celsius. In Punjab, Amritsar, Ludhiana and Patiala also recorded maximum temperatures close to normal limits at 35 degrees celsius, 34.6 degrees celsius and 34.5 degrees celsius, respectively. The IMD said no significant change in temperatures was likely in most parts of the country during the next three-four days.

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