Bhopal: Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh that faced three years of successive drought and farmer suicides, is now waterlogged following three days of rainfall. All districts of the backward region now face another extremity of weather – floods. All the water bodies which were empty till Wednesday, are overflowing.
Thousands of people are marooned at different locations in the three districts of Tikamgarh, Damoh and Sagar because of overflowing rivulets and rivers, that have cut off areas from remaining parts of the state.
Administration has announced that schools will remain closed till Monday in all the three districts. Weather office has issued warning for very heavy rainfall in Damoh , Tikamgarh and Sagar districts during next 24 hours.
Chief secretary Anthony De Sa said, "There has been no casualty on Thursday. We are coping with the situation and people are being evacuated."
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