Ghaziabad, Oct. 1 -- A committee of Ghaziabad district officials has observed 55 households, located in the floodplains of Yamunanear Loni's Badarpur village, need to be relocated as they have been affected by seasonal flooding for past couple of years. About a fortnight ago, the district magistrate (DM) formed a committee of officials to inquire about the households built in the river's floodplains, officials said on Tuesday. "We found 55 such households. The report is almost finalised and it will be submitted to the DM in a couple of days," said the committees' nodal officer and additional district magistrate (ADM) Saurabh Bhatt, adding that they have also chalked out a plan under which the families from these houses will be relocated on the land behind Alipur embankment. "This will ensure safety of these families. Under the relocation plan, we may offer these families houses under the PM Awas Yojana, or we may also offer them land deeds to get the ownership of the government land. Such lands are given free of cost to the poor. The next action will be on people who take up plotting in riverbeds. We will act strictly against such persons and will declare them land mafia," the ADM added. Yamuna flows through villages like Badarpur Khadar, Pychara, Nauraspur, Alipur, Mirpur Hindu, Lutfullapur Nawada, Khanpur Japti, Harampur, and Ilaichipur, among others, in Ghaziabad and has often seen rising water levels during the monsoon. Once the final report is sent to the DM, the relocation plan will be chalked out, Bhatt said. Officials said that majority of these 55 households are from Badarpur village, which is part in Delhi and part in Ghaziabad district. There is a very fine line to differentiate between the borders of Delhi and Ghaziabad in the river floodplain, and all 55 households affected due to flooding, will be relocated under the Ghaziabad district jurisdiction. As per the UP irrigation department data, the highest flood level (HFL) at Loni was 211.4 metres in 2013. This year too, the HFL reached 211 metres on September 2 amid recurrent rains and release of excess water from the Hathnikund barrage....