Ghaziabad: Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has proposed to construct a Rs 185-crore embankment to protect the international cricket stadium that will come up in Morti, Aero City and Harnandipuram township as Hindon’s water level rises. Water has entered the city forest and is flowing within 100 metres of the stadium site, while low-lying colonies, including Karhera, Ator-Nagla and Kanawani remain vulnerable.While floods might not directly affect the stadium, the access roads might get inundated. GDA has planned to build the embankment keeping this in mind. A GDA official said, “A 7-km, six-lane road from the City Forest area to Farukhnagar will be built on this embankment. It will create another access road to the stadium while securing it from floods.”Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association and GDA are jointly developing the Rs 450-crore stadium project. The embankment will be designed by IIT for Rs 2 crore. “Another Rs 2 crore will go towards making a DPR,” said the official. This is a part of GDA’s traffic circulation plan that is meant to ease the movement of cars around the proposed stadium.
The water level in Hindon has been rising after the rain and low-lying areas which are mainly agricultural lands have been inundated
Over the past few years, water has entered the floodplains during monsoon. Officials said the water level at the Hindon barrage is below the danger mark for now. “ It is steadily increasing and on Tuesday the maximum level was 202.8 m. The danger level is 205 metres,” an executive engineer of the UP irrigation department, Raj Kumar Vern, said. “At the Vasundhara barrage, water discharge was recorded at 4,454 cusec. The floodwater has entered low-lying areas and the water levels are being monitored.”The villages along the Hindon river in Ghaziabad that are considered to be vulnerable according to last year’s assessment are City Forest, Surana, Karhera, Attor Nagla, Bahlolpur, Chhijarsi, Bahadurpur, Bhadoli, Nekpur and Suthari. The district administration has constituted a flood control team which is monitoring the situation.
The water is now flowing within 100 metres of the proposed international cricket stadium site
