New Delhi: After the rains last night, some parts of Hyderabad again became flood-like on Sunday, while the flood situation in four districts of Karnataka remains critical due to the rise of the Krishna and Bhima rivers. Recently, after the most severe rains in nearly a century, flood-hit Hyderabad received torrential rain last night. Police and body officials gave this information.
He said that due to the rains since Saturday evening, lakes and other water centers started to overflow due to overflowing of water, which inundated many low lying areas. These include the city and areas outside the city which were severely affected by the floods last week.
Disaster Response Force personnel, employees and policemen from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation swung into action on Saturday night and started work to evacuate people trapped in flood waters. The scenes like the horrific pictures of last week started appearing again. Rain water filled the basements of many apartments and in some areas people were seen walking in knee-deep water. A video of some autorickshaw drifting on waterlogged roads also surfaced.
Municipal corporation officials said that a five-year-old girl died after a wall collapsed due to rain in Mangalhat area of Hyderabad today. The Meteorological Department has forecast more rains in areas of Telangana till 21 October. More than 50 people died in separate incidents in the state last week due to heavy rains. The state government has expressed an initial assessment of the loss of about Rs 5000 crore due to the heavy rains on Tuesday last week. The state had not received so much rainfall since 1916.
However, since Saturday night, torrential rains started again in some areas of Hyderabad and neighboring districts and Saroornagar in neighboring Rangareddy district received the highest 16.9 cm rainfall. At the same time, due to the rise of Krishna and Bhima rivers, the flood situation in four districts of Karnataka has remained serious.
Officials said personnel of the Army, National and State Disaster Response Force are engaged in relief work and evacuating hundreds of people stranded in the floods. Chief Minister B.S.
He said he would conduct an aerial survey of the affected areas on 21 October. According to the Karnataka Disaster Management Authority (KDMA), a total of 20,269 people have so far been evacuated with the help of local police and administration besides the army, NDRF, SDRF, of which 15,078 are from Kalburgi district alone.
KDMA Commissioner Manoj Rajan said that there was no loss of human life anywhere in the flood affected areas, although two cattle died in Vijayapura. 111 villages in four districts have been affected due to heavy rains, floods and water released by dams in neighboring Maharashtra.
Expressing his solidarity with the flood-hit people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured the state of full assistance from the Center. This is the third time in the last three months after heavy monsoon rains that the southern state has been affected by floods. Meanwhile, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar said on Sunday that the recent floods had caused “unprecedented” damage to agriculture in western Maharashtra and Marathwada.
He said that he would request the Prime Minister to help the affected people. Addressing a meeting of farmers of Tuljapur-Paranda region of Osmanabad district of Marathwada, the former Agriculture Minister assured that they would discuss the financial assistance with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and also urged the Center for assistance.
Officials said on Friday that due to heavy rains in the past few days, 48 people died in rain and floods in Pune, Konkan and Aurangabad divisions, while standing crops in lakhs of hectares were badly damaged.
