KAKINADA: The Godavari flood fury become increasing by the hour, with 17,07,047 cusecs of water discharged from Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage at Dowleswaram that become at 16.40 toes, and a third warning has been issued here.
Irrigation division expects the float would upward thrust to 24 lakhs cusecs by the evening on Friday. At Polavaram, the water phases reached to 34.890 metres at upper spillway and it discharged 16.29 lakh cusecs downstream by 8pm.
Godavari is swollen with the heavy rains in its upper reaches and transport facility become fully lower off to two villages — Koida and Katukuru — in Velerupadu mandal of West Godavari district.
The authorities has arranged food for supply to the flood victims of these villages with the abet of a Navy helicopter.
Eluru joint collector Arun mentioned 5 tonnes of vegetables, 2,800litres of oil, 1800 litres of milk, 1,000 packs of biscuits, 500 bread packets, 10,000 candles had been equipped to these two villages by the helicopter on Thursday.
District collector Venkatesh advised Deccan Chronicle that the two villages possess 1300 families. Of them, 800 families received the food topic topic by helicopter. On Friday, the closing families will be reached food by the helicopter.
Polavaram mission superintendent engineer and Incharge SE of Dowleswaram irrigation circle Narasimha Murthy mentioned there become a risk for discharge of higher than 24 lakhs cusecs of water from Dowleswaram barrage. In line with the officials, in year 2020, 22 lakh cusecs of water become discharged from the barrage.
Konaseema district administration has alerted the officials to soak up principal steps to face the flood mission. Irrigation officials possess paid consideration to Kulla-Sundarapalli embankment capabilities close to Kotipalli of Konaseema district as three capabilities had been in a extremely weakened stage.
The officials had been bringing in sand bags and sticks to toughen the bund.
Attributable to the float of backwaters at Cofferdam, the Gandiposamma temple and the Gonduru village, where 300 families are residing in Devipatnam mandal, were inundated.
The of us from the village had been evacuated. With the overflowing of Godavari and its tributary Sabari, Bhadrachalam recorded 60.67 toes of water. Attributable to very large flooding, many villages in Yetapaka mandal were inundated and the of us voluntarily went to the most web areas and nearby hillocks for safe cease. The reveal authorities deployed 12 SDRF and NDRF groups to 5 districts –ASR, Konaseema, Eluru, East and West Godavari to rescue the victims.
The Alluri Seetharama Raju district collector Sumit stayed at Chinturu agency and become carefully monitoring the mission. The reveal peril management MD, BR Ambedkar, mentioned that if a third warning came, it intended almost 524 villages in 42 mandals of six districts will be badly affected.
Meanwhile, home minister Taneti Vanitha, district collector Madhavi and Rajanagaram MLA Raja Indravandit went to Mulakallanka village in Seethanagaram mandal of East Godavari district by boat and requested the of us to circulate to safe areas. Vanitha mentioned `2,000 each and every will be given to each and every family of flood victims going to rehabilitation centres. She alongside with the collector went to Maddurilanka village of us and mentioned the affected villagers were offered safe haven at a detailed-by authorities college.
In Konaseema district, with the inundation of Kanakayalanka causeway, four islet villages, linking Konaseema and West Godavari districts possess also been inundated and transport facility become lower off between these villages and the well-known village.
Konaseema collector Himanshu Shukla mentioned because of the upward thrust in flood waters, 73 rehabilitation centres were web site up and 3200 families evacuated from the low-lying areas and islet villages to safer areas with the abet of 143 boats.
He mentioned 7,600 food packets and 2 lakh ingesting water sachets were equipped and 79 medical camps arranged in rehabilitation centres. There are about 73,400 families in 59 villages in 18 mandals suffering from floods in Konaseema, he mentioned.
NDRF and SDRF groups consisting of 75 personnel had been getting intriguing to take half in rescue operations. Paddy nurseries in 163 hectares and paddy plantations in 60 hectares were damaged.
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