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The Telangana authorities has requested the Centre to launch ₹1,350 crore as immediate help for taking over aid and rehabilitation works within the areas affected by the incessant rain within the final couple of days.
Of this, ₹600 crore is proposed as help for farmers and ₹750 crore shall be spent on aid and rehabilitation works within the GHMC space. Preliminary estimates put the losses incurred on account of the deluge at round ₹5,000 crore and Chief Minister {K}. Chandrashekhar Rao wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in search of immediate launch of ₹1,350 crore.
The letter adopted a high-level assembly convened by the Chief Minister to evaluation the scenario arising out of the current rain. The rain/flood resulted in 50 deaths, together with 11 within the GHMC space, and crops in over 7.35 lakh acres have been submerged.
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The loss to farmers could be in extra of ₹2,000 crore even when half of the crops within the areas below submergence have been broken. The GHMC space recorded 31 cm rain on a single day for the primary time after 1916, leading to inundation of a number of areas, notably these adjoining the tanks that reached their full ranges.
Water entered the cellars of flats as 20,540 homes in 144 colonies in 72 areas acquired heavy rain, affecting 35,000 households. L. B. Nagar, Charminar, Secunderabad and Khairatabad zones bore the brunt with 14 homes getting broken absolutely and 65 struggling partial harm.
Roads suffered harm in 445 locations and highways have been affected in six locations whereas the federal government had arrange aid camps in 72 locations. The impression of the rain was additionally felt in 30 different cities throughout the State, which reported harm to roads and different infrastructure. The energy institution, on its half, reported that water entered into 9 sub-stations below the TS Transco and one other 17 sub-stations below the facility distribution corporations.
With uprooting of swimming pools and damages to electrical traces elsewhere, the division suffered an estimated ₹5 crore losses at the same time as works had been taken up on struggle footing to revive energy provide within the affected areas the place works had been accomplished.
According to official estimates, 101 tanks suffered breaches and several other different damages have been additionally reported leading to loss of ₹50 crore to the Water Resources Department whereas the Panchayat Raj Department reported near ₹300 crore losses on account of breaches to roads and harm suffered by different infrastructure maintained by the division. The losses suffered by the Roads and Buildings Department have been estimated at ₹184 crore and one other ₹11 crore have been on account of the harm to the nationwide highways.
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