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Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna
The army swung into action on Wednesday to help civil authorities in rescue and relief operations in the flood-affected north Bihar districts, official sources said on Wednesday.
Sources in the revenue department said that the army was deployed in worst hit districts of Darbhanga and Madhubani.
The state government had earlier requested the army to be ready for emergency deployment in the flood-affected areas in north Bihar.
Chief minister Rabri Devi on Tuesday had demanded motorboats and a helicopter from the defence ministry to tackle the flood situation created by the breaches in the Bagmati embankment at Masaurha in Dharmpur panchayat of Sheohar district and in the Kamla Balan embankment in Jhanjharpur sub-division of Madhubani district.
She made an aerial survey of flood affected areas on Wednesday before reviewing the situation in a high level meeting.
"Thousands of people were shifted by the government in the last twenty-four hours and many more would be shifted tonight," official sources said.
The situation in nine districts in north Bihar including Madhubani, Darbhanga, East Champaran, West Champaran,Vaishali, Seohar, Saran, Gopalgunj and0 Siwan remains grim.
Officials of the Central Water Commission said that all the six rivers in north Bihar were flowing above the danger mark due to heavy rains in catchment areas in Nepal.
The state government has sounded red alert in seven districts of North Bihar -- Gopalganj, East and West Champaran, Siwan, Saran, Muzaffarpur and Vaishali -- with the swollen Gandak breaking the record of its ferocity.
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