As Godavari River the water level increased due to the continuous rainfall, high alerts have been issued. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao directed all the officials of Karimnagar, Warangal, and Khammam districts to stay alerted and keep updating the flood situation in the districts.
In this regard, KCR called for the special alert in Bhadrachalam town in Khammam district and Ramannagudem in Warangal district.
A release from the Chief Minister told that “officials need to be in touch with their Maharashtra counterparts to assess the flood situation and take steps accordingly.”
Till now 11 people died due to heavy rainfall which caused floods in Telangana. In Medak District, 8 people died while in Warangal 3 died.
After knowing about the flood situation in Telangana, KCR visited Karimnagar district. There he conducted an aerial survey of rain-affected areas and Mid Manair Dam (MMD). After that, the chief minister conducted a review meeting with officials and discussed the situation arising due to heavy rains and flooding.
The Telangana Government also launched evacuation operation on Monday. In this process over 1,000 people residing in six villages from Karimnagar district were evacuated.
Sources said that “water from the under-construction MMD in Karimnagar started overflowing from the bund and the earthen embankment got breached, resulting in floods in the area.”
KCR said that “the MMD faced trouble due to heavy inflow of water from upper Manair. The decade-long delay in carrying out construction work led to the flooding. All the agencies contract will be canceled as they delayed works.”
Officials said that “asserting that the bund of Mid Manair breached about 130 meters, there would not be a major problem even if floods came henceforth.”
Rao also directed all the officials to be prepared for any situation in the view of the heavy rains and floods. He also said that utmost priority should is to save humans and cattle.
The Chief Minister said “the administration need to pay ex gratia to the family members of those who died in rain-related incidents and to those whose houses were damaged and said, the estimates on the damages would be prepared soon. The tanks restored under the ‘Mission Kakatiya’ program of the state government are able to store more water now. Not even a single bund of the tanks revived under ‘Mission Kakatiya’ suffered a breach.”
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BY M. DIVYA SRI
