Hyderabad : Torrential rains bombarded Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for the alternate successive day, performing in at least 10 further losses, flooding and waterlogging in several areas, and dislocations to road and rail business on Sunday.
As numerous as 99 trains were cancelled, four trains were incompletely cancelled and 54 were diverted due to heavy rains and waterlogging over tracks at multiple locales on the South Central Railway network, an SCR functionary said.
Twenty- six National Disaster Response Force( NDRF) brigades are being stationed for flood tide relief and deliverance operations in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, officers said.
While 12 brigades are formerly stationed in the two neighbouring countries, 14 further are being dispatched, they said. Out of the 14 brigades, eight are being airlifted from colorful locales across the country, the officers said.
The NDRF brigades are equipped with inflatables boats, pole and tree knives and introductory medical aid tools, they said. Telangana Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said despite several preventative measures, nine persons lost their lives in colorful corridor of the state in separate rain- related incidents. Three persons were also stressed washed down in Mahabubabad and Khammam sections.
In sections like Suryapet, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Mahbubabad and Khammam, authorities vacated residers of several flood tide- hit townlets to safety, he said.
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy held an exigency review meeting. Hyderabad also witnessed heavy rains and the continued overnight rain led to waterlogging in numerous corridor of the megacity.
Due to the cast of further heavy rains in Hyderabad quarter, a vacation has been declared for all seminaries on September 2, officers said. District Collectors have been asked to declare a vacation for educational institutions as per original conditions on September 2.
residers of a position in Khammam quarter were stranded on rooftops as large areas remained marooned.
The rainfall department on Sunday issued a red alert for veritably heavy to extremely heavy rain at isolated places in Adilabad, Nizamabad, Rajanna Sircilla, Yadadri Bhuvangiri, Vikarabad, Sangareddy, Kamareddy and Mahabubnagar sections of Telangana till 8.30 am of September 2.
Several places in Andhra Pradesh are also anticipated to admit downfall, including heavy downfall in some places. corridor of Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram, Parvatipuram Manyam, Alluri Sitarama Raju, Kakinada and Nandyala sections are likely to admit heavy downfall, said an sanctioned release.
waking people living in low- lying areas, Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority managing director R Kurmandh said the first position warning has been issued at Prakasam shower in Vijayawada as the Krishna swash is in torrent, following heavy flux. The state had reported eight deaths a day before.
In the worst affected Vijayawada quarter, Budameru, a runlet on the outskirts of the quarter, overflowed at several points on Sunday, leading to flooding in numerous megacity points similar numerous houses and vehicles were submerged in these areas and others. At Rajarajeswari Peta in the megacity, people were seen wading through casket-deep water on a swamped road.
“ Due to the heavy rain, Vijayawada and Guntur metropolises have been fully deserted. ” Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said at a press conference at the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority( APSDMA) in Tadepalli, According to the CM, Jaggaiahpeta entered 26 cm downfall in 24 hours while 14 mandals registered over 20 cm downfall.
He said 94 further places in 14 sections entered downfall between 7 and 12 cm and added that nine rain- related deaths and one missing case were reported.
Noting that over to 2 lakh cusecs of rainwater entered Budameru, he said the state is unfit to estimate how much more water is anticipated to flow in. “ We're making mounts downstream of Prakasam shower with sandbags and other means and advised the quarter collectors, ” said Naidu on the measures being taken to palliate rain straits.
The CM said that 17,000 rain- affected people were vacated to 107 relief camps while over 1.1 lakh hectares of agrarian fields and 7,360 hectares of horticultural fields were damaged. Naidu said arrangements for food were being made at the recuperation centres for the people before, Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar said that following the Home Minister’s orders, nine NDRF brigades, three each from Chennai, Visakhapatnam, and Assam, have been dispatched to Telangana. A portion of clay under the road track near Kesamudram in Mahabubabad quarter was washed down due to floodwaters, performing in passengers on a train being stranded at Kesamudram road station.
The SCR functionary said due to incessant rains in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over the once 24 hours there has been submerging and breaches in Kazipet to Vijayawada section and five trains in that section were stranded indeed as officers moved 15 trains via a diverted path.
thus, vehicles have been stopped on this route and those going to Vijayawada via Suryapet and those going to Khammam should put off their trip, Suryapet District supervisor of Police Sunpreet Singh said in a release.
Malyal in Mahabubabad quarter entered the loftiest downfall of 40 cm followed by Mahabubabad 37 cm and Kodada in Suryapet quarter 35 cm( till 8.30 am on Sunday).
Meanwhile, the depression over north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha beachfronts, which has been causing heavy downfall over the once two days, moved northwestwards to cross the southern state’s seacoast near Kalingapatnam in the atomic hours of Sunday, said a India Meteorological Department functionary.
The rainfall system presently lay centred over south Odisha and touching north Andhra Pradesh, about 90 km north to northwest of Visakhapatnam and 120 km east of Malkangiri.
“ It's likely to move west- northwestwards across south Odisha and south Chhattisgarh to weaken into a well- pronounced low pressure area during the coming 24 hours, ” the functionary said in a press release.
According to Telangana Development Planning Society, Thumpally in Nizamabad quarter entered 199.8 mm of downfall during 0830 hours to 2100 hours on Sunday followed by 191 mm in IDOC( Kamareddy) in Kamareddy quarter.
