People have been evacuated from catchment areas such as Yamuna Bazar, Usmanpur and Garhi Mandu.
"Those places where people have refused we have given them boats as a precautionary measure so that they can use them in emergency," the official added.
According to an official manning a special flood watch post near Agra, "The level of the Yamuna has been rising at a rate of about 3 inches an hour and considering that the river was just about 8 feet below the danger mark of 498 feet."
Image: A family awaits help over their flood-affected home in a low-lying area in eastern Delhi.
Photograph: Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images
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