A.P. has incurred a loss of ₹6,386 cr. due to floods, CS tells Central team
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Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney on Monday knowledgeable the Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT), which is on a two-day go to to assess the extent of harm brought on by the latest floods, that the State suffered an general loss of roughly ₹6,386 crore.
At a assembly on the Secretariat, Ms. Sawhney informed Saurav Ray, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, who led the seven-member IMCT, that heavy rains and floods ravaged the State in August, September and October and the agriculture sector bore the brunt of the calamity.
However, the State authorities may mitigate loss to different properties and prevented a main loss of lives by taking immediate damage-control measures.
She sought a advice to be made to the Central authorities to chill out the honest common high quality norms to facilitate the procurement of discoloured paddy and broken groundnut crop.
Paddy was destroyed in about 2.12 lakh hectares. The loss amounted to almost ₹903 crore. Horticulture crops in 24,516 hectares had been broken inflicting a loss of ₹483 crore.
The Roads & Buildings Department incurred a loss of ₹2,976 crore on account of 5,583 kilometres of roads broken. The Water Resources and Panchayat Raj Departments incurred a loss of ₹1,074 crore and ₹780 crore, the CS acknowledged.
387 mandals affected
Principal Secretary (catastrophe administration) V. Usha Rani mentioned 3,310 villages in 387 mandals had been badly affected by the torrential rains. A complete of 17.74 lakh individuals had been impacted by the calamity, which claimed 45 lives.
Special Chief Secretary (agriculture) Poonam Malakondaiah, Principal Secretary (R&B) M.T. Krishna Babu, Commissioner of Civil Supplies K. Sasidhar and different officers gave displays on the loss incurred by the respective departments.
The IMCT comprised Ayush Punia (Ministry of Rural Development), O.P. Suman (Ministry of Power), R.B. Kaul (Ministry of Finance), K. Ponnusamy (Department of Agriculture), P. Devendar Rao (Ministry of Jal Shakti) and Shrawan Kumar (Ministry of Road Transport & Highways).
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