MP's Shivpuri Flood Breaks 70-Year Record, Submerges 20 Villages, Crops Across District

Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh): The devastating flood in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district has broken all the records of the last seven decades. The chaos caused by the surging waves of Sindh River in 20 villages of Kolaras assembly constituency has become a painful memory for the coming generations.

The flood arrived on the night of 29th July in 20 villages including Anantpur, Pachavali, Sangeshwar, Lagda, Lalpur and Sakhnaur. As soon as the water entered the houses at 11 pm, people had to leave everything and run towards higher places.

District recorded 125% more rain than average

Savitri of Pachavali informed that at 11 pm the water rose above the waist. She climbed the roof of the concrete house with her children and stayed there the whole night.

Her mud house collapsed in front of her eyes. Grain, utensils, animals, everything was washed away. A buffalo and a goat also fell prey to the flood.

The highest rainfall of 217 mm was recorded in Badarwas tehsil of Shivpuri. This caused floods in the Sindh River.

The district received 112.97 mm rainfall in 24 hours, due to which the total average rainfall reached 1021 mm, which is 125.17% more than normal.

Houses collapsed, ration washed away

Hundreds of kutcha houses were razed to the ground in these villages. The year's grain, household items and animal fodder kept in these houses were also washed away. Villager Raja Bhaiya Jatav says that 15 quintals of wheat, all household items and fodder kept for the cattle were washed away in the water. Lentils, gram and wheat got buried under Kishanveer's house and got spoiled.

The flood also dashed the hopes of the farmers. Thousands of bighas of crops of maize, urad, groundnut and soybean grown in the fields of Kolaras area were destroyed. Lalu Prajapati and Chandrabhan Patel of Anantpur village say that maize crop grown in more than 15 thousand bighas of fields has been completely submerged.