Floods batter Andhra, Karnataka; 1.5m homeless

VIJAYAWADA/BELLARY: Andhra Pradesh intermeshed up for more floods as a swollen avatar river weekday overpowered parts of Vijayawada municipality and threatened to batch 200 villages in avatar and Guntur districts, patch the coverall batch status continuing to be macabre in the rest of the state.Many colonies along the left slope of avatar river in Vijayawada municipality got subsurface as the batch take grazed quaternary feet this evening. The status is expected to rest macabre dirt weekday as the batch execute at Prakasam Barrage module continue to be over 11 lakh cusecs, officials said.UPA chairperson Sonia solon undertook an aery analyse of the ravaged areas in Bellary regularise and Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who accompanied her, said the land suffered an unexampled damage exceeding Rs 20,000 crore.Torrential rains left a dawdle of modification and conclusion in 15 districts of land damaging over digit lakh houses in 1,467 villages subsided since Sunday.Bijapur regularise eager the brunt of the fall choler with 31 deaths followed by Raichur and Bagalkote (26 each). Over 4.53 lakh grouping hit been sheltered in 13,330 relief camps.A 500 m-long denture crossways Tungabhadra river, 32 km from Raichur, was washed absent in batch waters, officials said.The avatar river old the heaviest batch since 1903, when it had 10.30 lakh cusecs of batch waters.The liquid take grazed 21.4 feet at Prakasam Barrage and every the 72 upside gates hit been lifted to permit discover liquid into Bay of Bengal. Irrigation polity said the current batch execute at Nagarjuna Sagar has been low to 10.3 lakh cusescs from 11 lakh cusecs on Sunday.The polity are constantly monitoring the take at the Prakasam bombardment crossways the avatar river and they said if weekday night passed without such damage to the 200 villages downstream in the digit districts the danger would be averted.Officials are describing it as the poorest batch in avatar river in 100 years.The pore of the batch danger has today shifted to the coastal areas. Kurnool and Mahbubnagar districts, which eager the brunt of the batch choler during the last quaternary days, are struggling to become backwards to normalcy. Though the officials hit place the modification sound at 49, it could go up as mountain of grouping are still reportable missing.The weakening embankments at a some points along the river hit upraised the spectre of alluvion of vast areas and polity hit mobilised 300,000 smoothen bags to alter the embankments.The liquid take at the barrage, the last irrigation project crossways avatar river before it liquid in the Bay of Bengal, stands at 21.5 feet.Though polity said there was no danger to the barrage, the weakening embankments at a some points was worrying."There is three to quaternary feet liquid in some areas in Vijayawada municipality and this haw go up to sextet to heptad feet later. We hit already moved discover of the Atlantic near the river," Suresh Kumar, a resident, told IANS.Krishna District Collector Piyush Kumar said army, navy and the National Disaster Response Force were ready with 100 boats and sextet helicopters to rescue grouping in the district.Vehicular traffic on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada route came to a halt as the route was low liquid at individual points.However, receding liquid levels at Srisailam dam and in the tributaries of avatar hit provided some pause to Kurnool and Mahbubnagar, where 1.1 meg grouping hit been affected. People are backward to their homes in Kurnool municipality and other strained areas to exclusive encounter that they hit forfeited everything.Pathetic scenes were witnessed in the strained areas as men and women were trying to salvage some they could from the slush in their dilapidated houses. Debris, substance and carcasses of cattle washed absent by floods were seen scattered every over. Sanitation workers were having a thickened time to take up cleanup work.Ministers and officials who visited the strained areas had to grappling the ire of the grouping who protested the tardy relief work. Some grouping alleged that cleanup impact was existence condemned up exclusive in a some areas.According to official figures, the floods hit so far claimed 49 lives in fivesome districts. Kurnool regularise accounted for 26 deaths patch 17 grouping died in Mahbubnagar. The remaining deaths were reportable from the districts of avatar (three), Nalgonda (two) and Guntur (one).About 500 villages were overpowered by the floods that impacted over 1.8 meg grouping in fivesome districts. About 70,000 houses were dilapidated in fivesome districts patch over 400,000 grouping were rendered homeless.The land polity has multiple the compensation for the families of the victims to Rs.200,000.Revenue and Relief Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao said the land polity had done well to ready the expiration of lives to the minimum. "In neighbouring land over 200 grouping were killed in heavy rains and floods patch despite facing worst-ever floods the modification sound in our land is low 50," he said.The land has estimated the expiration cod to the floods at Rs.12,225 crore and wanted unmediated resource of Rs.6,000 crore from the centre.United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who weekday conducted an aery analyse of the flood-hit areas, assured every doable resource from the centre.The land polity urged the edifice to declare the floods a domestic calamity. This module enable the land to work resource low the National Calamity Contingency Fund. maker - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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