Worlds most dangerous and deadly Flash flood in Bagasra and Amreli district Gujarat - 24 JUN 2015

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It's a scene of complete devastation in Amreli, which has been ravaged by the worst Flash floods in 90 years. Almost 600 out of the total 838 villages of the district are inundated and a massive rescue and relief operation has been launched by the state government, the Indian Air Force (IAF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to shift stranded people to safer locations. On Thursday, four IAF choppers made 19 sorties to drop 15,000 food packets for villagers, many of whom were stranded on their terraces since Wednesday. Over 400 villages are completely inaccessible as roads have been washed away due to flash floods in Shetrunji river and its tributaries. The rail connectivity to the district was also snapped after a bridge collapsed near Gavadka and track was washed away near Borala village near Savarkundla. Vast tracts of land are still submerged under water and officials engaged in the relief work say that it will take at least 20 days for the situation to normalize. "However, if there is rain, the situation is going to worsen," an official told TOI. Senior citizens in Amreli said that this was the worst-ever flood in 90 years. The communication network has also collapsed in the district and over 400 villages have no electricity as 705 poles have been damaged. "We have started the work to restore power but it's not possible many villages to conduct repairs," a Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (PGVCL) said. The condition of farmers is extremely miserable. They have not only lost their crops and seeds sown after initial rainfall but also lost their livestock. Thousands of domestic cattle have died across the district. In 35-km stretch from Amreli to Savarkundla, people spotted as many as 70 dead cattle. Chief minister Anandiben Patel, who carried out an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas, said financial assistance will be extended to all affected farmers after assessing the damage to crops. Bhadresh Vamja, sarpanch of Sadli village, said, "Many farmers may never be able to sow again as flash floods have resulted in massive soil erosion in their fields." Of the total 5.30 lakh hectares of cultivable area, sowing was done on 3.48 lakh hectare, most of which has been washed away. "With farms washed away and cattle dead, there is nothing that farmers can fall back on for livelihood," said Babu Sojitra from Bavadi village. AIR correspondent reports that 13 people died when two houses collapsed in Nani Vabhaniya village near Bagasara town of Amreli district. Apart from this, 3 people died in Bhavnagar district, 2 died in Gaondal in Rajkot district and and 3 people died in Surat district in different rain related incidents. NDRF and Airforce have been pressed in to the service for rescue and relief works in Amreli district. Additional companies of State Reserve Police force have been sent in all flood affected areas.More than 100 people have been airlifted in Amreli district while one thousand people have been evacuated in Surat due to flood and heavy rain fall. ****************************************­********************* This is Gir India Films. A new india's professionally wildlife stock footage company. Specially gir forest wildlife basis huge stock footage archive, It is part of this collection. Our team active last 25 years footage shooting works in the surrounding gir forest area, we have huge footage collection of asiatic lion, leopard and wild animals, wildlife, Jungle people, village, festivals, politics, pilgrimage, traditional fair, earthquake, floods, heavy rain, fisherman, and biodiversity and gujarat siddi community (African origin) unique, amazing and rare videos footage. we have more than 1000 DVC, SD format and HD the largest collection of VHS, DVC, HD imagery from Gujarat state in India. The collection comprises of 10, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Immense wealth in huge archive. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! Asiatic Lion ! Live only one inhabited place on earth, So is the vast wilderness of GIR FOREST in gujarat and amazing footage or wildlife rescue operation by world's most busy and hard working forest rescue team. So now, take the asiatic lions rare videos We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across Gujarat and India. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of Gujarat and India to the world... Please subscribe to our channel girindiafilms on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, Gujrat's gir forest and Wildlife, biological diversity, flora & fauna Gujarat civilization and more.. first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at: girindiafilms@gmail.com, To SUBSCRIBE click the below link: https://www.youtube.com/c/girindia