Flood damage being enumerated: Collector

District Collector I. Samuel Anand Kumar has mentioned that each one precautionary measures together with aid and rehabilitation programmes have been taken as much as forestall any inconvenience to the individuals of the catchment space because of the floods within the district and Krishna river.

Addressing mediapersons, Mr. Kumar mentioned flood aid operations had been being carried out within the district in full movement and far of the damage had been minimised.

The floods within the Krishna affected 37 villages in 19 zones, 19 residential areas and 30,544 individuals within the district, leaving 5 lifeless. The kin of the 4 of the deceased had been awarded a compensation of ₹16 lakh every. He mentioned 4 groups from NTRF and NDRS had been concerned in aid operations.

Mr. Kumar mentioned 178 homes had been partially broken and 9,168 homes had been flooded. He mentioned 40 boats had been deployed within the villages and about 4,000 individuals had been evacuated to safer areas. About 10559.65 hectares of agricultural crops, 9385.06 hectares of horticultural crops and 27.56 hectares of sericulture had been broken.

Vijayababu Dachapalli, from Mangaladasa Nagar, Guntur, was swept away within the floods. Three boats, 103 nets had been washed away and 49 fish ponds had been broken resulting from flood waters. Cattle had been shifted from Rayapudi Pedalanka to Ibrahimpatnam in Krishna district.

Further, repairs works had begun to the irrigation tanks and proposals had been ready for momentary repairs to the broken Municipal, R&B roads and steps are being taken to begin the works. Agricultural and non-agricultural connections to the facility sector had been broken resulting from flooding in some areas and repairs had been being carried out.

He mentioned medical camps had been arrange in each village for the therapy of individuals affected by fever and all precautionary measures had been taken up to now with out registering a single case of diarrhoea and malaria.

Enumeration groups had been directed to finish the method and submit proposals for crop damage compensation by October 31. The crop compensation proposals can be submitted to the federal government on October 1 and the federal government would launch the crop compensation in October by November 15. Already ₹1.5 crore has been launched from the SDRF for flood aid operations within the district.