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KARNAl: Excessive discharge of water in the Yamuna on Sunday has flooded people with anxiety in more than two dozen villages on its banks in the Kamal and Panipat districts.
The district authorities have sounded maximum alert and geared up for the situation. Surplus discharge from the Hathnikund Barrage in the Yamunanagar district will enter the area past midnight.
The district authorities said preventive measures were on but villagers should be alert, for the flooded river might change its course because of heavy inflow.
Villagers and officials in the district have orders to patrol the banks all night. The towns experienced moderate to heavy rain on Sunday, but sky cleared in the afternoon to the relef of worried people.
Karnal had received 2.3 lakh cusecs of water in the river by evening. When contacted, Dinesh S. Yadav, Subdivisional . Magistrate at Indri in Kamal district, said: “The water gushed into the residential areas of the Chandrao village and adjoining low-lying stations, but the situation was not alarming.”
Water entered fields in some pocket of the area. “I took officials from the departments of revenue, irrigation, and police to areas in the Yamuna belt,” Yadav said.
“At least one village in Panipat was marooned under flood water,” Azad Singh Lathwal, executive engineer, Yamunanagar, said on being contacted.
Rescue work at the Rahimpur Kheri village was to get over late Sunday.
“People in more than a dozen villages in the Sanauli area are on maximum alert. The required infrastructure is in place, and rescue and medical teams are on standby,” Lathwal said.
The city of Karnal, said to have been founded by Raja Karna, of the Mahabharta fame, spring into prominence in 1739 when Nadir Shah defeated Muhammad Shah at Karnal. Raja Gopal Singh of Jind seized Karnal in 1863, and the Marhattas established themselves at Karnal in 1785. Skirmishes however, followed between the Marhattas and the Sikhs. In 1795 the Marhattas finally wrested it from Raja Bhag Singh of Jind and made it over to the George Thomas, who took part in the fight. Meanwhile Raja Gurdit Singh of Ladwa obtained possession of Karnal. It was captured by the British in 1805 and made over to Muhamdi Khan (Mandal). Karnal, on being formed into a British cantonment, the fort which had been built by Raja Gajpat singh of Jind, was taken over by the British and converted into a residence for Dost Mohd. Khan Amir of Kabul. The fort was used as a jail,as quarters for native cavalry and as poor house. In 1862, it was made over to the Education Department, when the district school was moved into it from the city.
