The 2 Telugu talking states had been reeling beneath the impression of the rains on Monday, as 16 individuals had been killed in Telangana and 15 others within the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, which significantly bore the brunt of the rain fury.
Torrential downpour in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh left 31 individuals useless, battered roads and rail tracks snapping connectivity, submerged 1000’s of acres of agricultural crops and left folks scampering for each day wants as rescue companies had been pressed into rescue and rehabilitation efforts.
The 2 Telugu talking states had been reeling beneath the impression of the rains on Monday, as 16 individuals had been killed in Telangana and 15 others within the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, which significantly bore the brunt of the rain fury.
A portion of gravel beneath the railway observe close to Kesamudram in Telangana was washed away resulting from floodwaters.
Almost 4.5 lakh folks had been affected in Andhra, at the same time as heart-wrenching scenes of individuals struggling to make sure necessities, together with milk had been witnessed within the worst affected Vijayawada. Probably the most affected districts included NTR, Guntur, Krishna, Eluru, Palnadu, Bapatla and Prakasam, stated an official press launch.
Twenty SDRF and 19 NDRF groups are engaged in reduction and rescue operations.
Life was utterly thrown out of substances in Vijayawada following torrential downpour over the previous three days and with greater than 24 hours of energy cuts in a number of elements of the town.
Visuals aired on native TV information channels confirmed a lady lamenting to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu that individuals had been stranded for 2 days in Ajit Singh Nagar in Vijayawada with out ingesting water. She complained no boat got here to their rescue whereas one other man standing in waist deep waters begged Naidu, who was touring the flood-affected areas for the third time on a ship, to know their predicament.
Folks had been seen wading by means of floodwaters carrying their kids on shoulders to security whereas an outdated lady mendacity on a mattress was seen being shifted over floodwaters by two individuals. Some folks tried to assist themselves by means of the deluge utilizing a rope.
As folks waded by means of the floodwaters, a number of of them held on to some primary requirements of their palms and a big queue was shaped at one of many flood-affected locations to gather milk sachets and meals packets.
At one such place, a flood sufferer complained they didn’t have milk since Sunday morning and alleged no assist got here their means from the federal government.
Web and cell phone connectivity had been disrupted and lengthy visitors snarls disrupted regular life. Connectivity to Hyderabad was affected. Transportation inside Vijayawada metropolis and its neighborhood was chaotic.
At Prakasam Barrage, 11.3 lakh cusecs of floodwaters had been discharged by 8 am on Monday.
In Telangana, not less than 16 folks misplaced their lives in varied rain-related incidents and the state authorities on Monday put the injury at Rs 5,000 crore citing preliminary estimates. It sought an instantaneous Central help of Rs 2,000 crore.
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to go to the affected areas and declare the floods as a nationwide calamity. He additionally introduced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh every to the kin of those that had been killed within the rain-related incidents.
The CM held a gathering with ministers and officers at Suryapet as a part of his go to to rain-hit areas.
State IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu stated full particulars on the lack of life and others could be recognized after stories on injury are acquired. The federal government will submit a complete report on the flood injury to the Centre, an official launch stated.
Officers knowledgeable the CM that crops in over 1.5 lakh acres suffered injury as per preliminary estimates The flood-hit areas of Khammam introduced a scene of in depth injury as home goods had been washed away and a few gadgets carried away by water had been caught to the gates of homes.
Residents of flood-affected areas narrated their woes to state Income Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao, who visited them.
An official of the Secunderabad-headquartered South Central Railway (SCR) stated resulting from heavy rains and waterlogging over the tracks at a number of places on the SCR community, as many as 432 trains had been cancelled and 13 trains had been partially cancelled. He stated 139 trains had been diverted until Monday afternoon.
Restoration works had been underway, he stated.
Because of incessant rains within the two states, flooding and breaches had been reported in Kazipet-Vijayawada part and 5 trains had been stranded.
Over 7,500 passengers from these trains had been delivered to the closest Railway stations in state-run RTC buses on Sunday night and particular trains had been organized to take them to their respective locations, he added.
Numerous lorries had been stranded on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada Nationwide Freeway close to Kodada as water was flowing on the street. The officers urged these travelling to Vijayawada to make use of the Narkatpalli-Addanki freeway instead.
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