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Floods come to Haryana again
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 8
Fresh flood threat looms large over several parts of Haryana following heavy rainfall since yesterday and the increase in the flow of the waters in the Yamuna, the Som and the Pathrala rivers.Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati held an emergency meeting with senior officers to review the situation after which the district administrations of Yamunanagar, Ambala, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Sonepat were alerted.

The district administration of Sonepat was directed to get two villages of Hasanpur and Manauli Tonki vacated as a precaution. Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Irrigation, SS Dhillon, informed the Chief Secretary that the Yamuna had a flow of 6.86 lakh cusecs at 5 pm today and Som and Pathrala rivers one lakh cusecs each.

The Delhi administration had been alerted and those of Faridabad and Palwal directed to take effective measures. The Chhachrauli-Poanta Sahib NH-73 has been closed to traffic. An alert had been sounded in villages on the banks of the Yamuna. 

l Two Sonepat villages to be vacated

l National Disaster Response Force alerted

l NH 73 closed