The villages are Alamgir, Sadhawala, Dandehra, Khajur Mandi, Tiwana, Bahora and Bahori. Soon after receiving information, a National Disaster Relief Force team was rushed to the spot. While the majority of the residents were shifted to safer locations, over 1,000 villagers, majority of them women and children, were taken to shelter homes.
The DC also said that the vulnerable point of Ghaggar at Tiwana village where it takes a sharp turn was being monitored by keeping sufficient quantities of sandbags by drainage.