As per information provided by State Government of Uttar Pradesh, the losses due to flood during the last three years and the current year (2022-23 to 2025-26) from Rapti River in Shravasti Lok Sabha Constituency and adjoining 7 districts including Balrampur is at Annexure.

 

Following measures and provision of essential facilities/relief have been taken by State to mitigate losses to public and property due to the floods:

• Food packets, lunch packets, water pouches, ORS packets, chlorine tablets, tripal, dignity kits have been distributed.

· Medical teams have been camped in the affected area.

· Under animal relief efforts animal camps have been established for treating animals, vaccinating animals.

· Distributing fodder for animals.

· For damaged houses due to rainfall and flooding, compensation has been provided to the owners according to SDRF guidelines.

· Relief and rescue efforts have been set up and boats have been positioned.

• Control room at district level and state level remain active & in well-coordinated manner 24x7.

 

CWC maintains 4 level forecasting stations on Rapti river, namely, Balrampur (Balrampur District), Bansi (Sidharthnagar District), Birdghat (Gorakhpur District) and Kakradhari (Shravasti district).

 

Two flood management projects on river Rapti benefitting Siddharthnagar, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur & Deoria districts of Uttar Pradesh have been implemented under Flood Management and Border Areas Programme (FMBAP), a centrally sponsored Scheme of Govt. of India. Central assistance of Rs. 66.65 Crore has been released to Govt. of Uttar Pradesh under FMBAP.

 

Flood management and anti-erosion schemes are formulated and implemented by concerned State Governments as per their priority. Government of Uttar Pradesh has no plan to raise the existing embankments and to construct new embankments on both banks of the Rapti river in the flood affected areas of Shravasti, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabir Nagar and Deoria Districts.

 

The information was provided by THE MINISTER OF JAL SHAKTI SHRI C R PATIL in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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ND

(Lok Sabha S Q77)

 

ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA QUESTION NO. 77 ANSWERED ON 04.12.2025 REGARDING

“LOSSES DUE TO FLOODS IN RAPTI RIVER”
 

The details of loss of life and property caused by floods due to Rapti River in Shravasti Lok Sabha Constituency and other districts of Uttar Pradesh including Balrampur during each of the last three years and the current year
S.No.	District	Year	Number of casualties due to floods	Number of injured	Number of animal casualties	Number of houses damaged	Details of funds distributed in respect of loss of life, injuries, animal loss and house damage due to floods	Number of farmers affected by floods	Affected area	Details of funds distributed in respect of agricultural damage caused by floods
1	Shravasti	2022-23	6	0	3	1321	12790000	44123	27859.111	236802441
		2023-24	0	0	1	67	1986000	0	0	0
		2024-25	3	0	2	127	5560500	0	0	0
		2025-26	0	0	0	8	960000	0	0	0
		Total	9	0	6	1523	21296500	44123	27859.111	236802441
2	Balrampur	2022-23	14	0	5	1396	11979700	83984	47676.544	251727543
		2023-24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2024-25	4	0	2	423	6387482	1150	166.2	4784639
		2025-26	0	0	0	32	1264000	0	0	0
		Total	18	0	7	1851	19631182	85134	47842.744	256512182
3	Siddharthnagar	2022-23	21	0	1	126	10190000	66014	58857	351166550
		2023-24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2024-25	3	0	0	18	1319500	38028	12304	190242721
		2025-26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Total	24	0	1	144	11509500	104042	71161	541409271
4	Maharajganj	2022-23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2023-24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2024-25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2025-26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Kushinagar	2022-23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2023-24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2024-25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2025-26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Sant Kabir Nagar	2022-23	0	0	0	0	0	842	135	2432838
		2023-24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2024-25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2025-26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Total	0	0	0	0	0	842	135	2432838
7	Gorakhpur	2022-23	2	0	0	2	990200	28096	5378.7754	112786791
		2023-24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2024-25	0	0	0	27	2344000	6581	1496.9822	30501732
		2025-26	0	0	0	3	248000	413	30.0315	2633726
		Total	2	0	0	32	3582200	35090	6905.7891	145922249
8	Deoria	2022-23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2023-24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2024-25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		2025-26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Grand Total	53	0	14	3550	56019382	269231	153903.6441	1183078981

 

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