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KCR puts admin on alert
With heavy rains lashing Telangana over the past few days, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday directed his ministerial colleagues to stay in their respective districts and monitor the flood situation and supervise relief and rehabilitation works.
​Hyderabad: With heavy rains lashing Telangana over the past few days, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday directed his ministerial colleagues to stay in their respective districts and monitor the flood situation and supervise relief and rehabilitation works.
In view of the flood situation, KCR cancelled the Cabinet meeting scheduled for Monday and asked the ministers to work in coordination with district-level officials and ensure evacuation of people from the low-lying areas to safer places.
In the wake of increasing flood in Godavari river and its tributaries following heavy rains in the catchment areas of the river in Maharashtra, the Chief Minister directed the district ministers, officials and also the police of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam districts, to remain alert.
As river Godavari is in spate, KCR directed Warangal district administration to be on high alert. The river is receiving huge in flows and hence he has directed the officials to see that people living on the banks of the river should be evacuated if necessary.
He has directed the district administration to remain on high alert. He also asked the Roads and Buildings Minister T Nageshwar Rao to monitor the flood situation. The Chief Minister spoke to Irrigation Minister Harish Rao who is in Karimnagar on the inflows of water from Godavari basin.
Harish Rao informed the Chief Minister that all the projects in Godavari basin had received inflows to their full capacity. He also briefed him about the necessary measures taken up to handle the situation.
Meanwhile, the Meteorological Centre, Hyderabad has forecast light to moderate rain and thundershowers at most places over Telangana till Tuesday. It also said that heavy rains are very likely to occur at isolated places in the districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar, Medak, Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad during the next two days.
