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Floods
are the most commonly occurring in Uttar Pradesh affecting almost
every year some or the other part of the state. Important rivers,
which create floods in the State, are the Ganga, the Yamuna, the
Ramganga, the Gomti, the Sharda, the Ghaghra, the Rapti and the
Gandak. The rainfall increases from west to east and from south
to north .Similar is the pattern of floods ,the problem increases
from west to east and south to north. Out
of the 240.93 lakh hectares geographical area of the State about
73.06 lakh hectares is flood prone.
Since the last week of July, 2007 about 20 districts, mostly from
eastern zone of the State have been severely hit by the onslaught
of flood. In these districts the climates of floods was seen on
7th August, 2007 when 2634 villages were affected by the floods
and area of 5.58 lakh hectare was under flood waters. This way about
4.16 lakh hectare of land under agriculture was affected. With such
gigantic problem only government efforts will not able to solve
the situation. Hence it is the pious duty of the voluntary sector
to shoulder the responsibility of tackling the flood menace with
a government. UPVAN, a network of 245 organization in 54 district
of the state has come forward in this regard.
Areas of intervention By UPVAN:
The Government of Uttar Pradesh has issued the revised CRF guidelines
on 31st July, 2007 , where in relief measures have been declared,
but at the field level there was hardly any knowledge about these
guidelines, hence UPVAN has got printed sufficient number of copies
and got distributed the same in the affected areas through its network
organizations. Refer to : Apda
Evam Manveey Sahyog
- Helping
the flood stricken people through the volunteers through our network
organizations (list enclosed).
- Assessing
the flood situation through the UPVAN Sachivalay and submitting
its reports to the government and all concerned.
- It
is also proposed that UPVAN field volunteers would go in affected
areas and prepare a database of girls and children who are in
rehabilitation camps, whether they are with their parents or not.
The volunteers would also go to affected areas and in case they
find any children without family, they will enlist them in their
database and admit them in the camps. At times, the volunteers
may also support the children and women till the time they reach
the camps.
- Networking
with local media and police, along with district administration,
to release the photographs and information about these children
and girls.
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