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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected Friday (May 22, 2026) conducted an exigency reappraisal gathering connected the terrible vigor question conditions prevailing crossed the State, putting the officials connected precocious alert to support nationalist wellness and safety.
With temperatures soaring to unsafe levels successful respective districts, the Chief Minister instructed the officials to place regions witnessing utmost vigor and continuously contented alerts and warnings for the public. He directed the authorities to state section holidays successful areas wherever vigor strength becomes exceptionally severe.
The officials informed Mr. Naidu that the prevailing El Niño conditions had importantly intensified the heatwave crossed Andhra Pradesh.
Mr. Naidu ordered the officials to guarantee the availability of acold drinking water, buttermilk and ORS sachets astatine nationalist places and high-footfall areas.
He directed the District Collectors to clasp media briefings and make consciousness among the nationalist astir the precautions to debar vigor changeable and dehydration. Information and advisories should besides beryllium issues continuously done societal media platforms and the press, helium said.
Stressing that nationalist information remained the government’s apical priority, the Chief Minister appealed to the nationalist to debar venturing outdoors during the noon. He advised elder citizens, large women, children and those with wellness issues to enactment indoors betwixt 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Heat shelters
The officials said that 1,349 vigor shelters and cooling centres had already been acceptable up successful municipality areas. Arrangements for shadiness person been made astatine 446 postulation junctions for motorists and constabulary personnel.
The Chief Minister directed the officials to put h2o troughs and clay pots for birds and animals.
The officials said that temperatures successful the State had gone up from 45°C to 48°C implicit the past 3 days, adding that Andhra Pradesh recorded a historical precocious of 50.1°C during the terrible El Niño twelvemonth of 2015.
Mr. Naidu stressed the request to summation greenery crossed agrarian and municipality areas, stating that improving groundwater levels and greenish screen would assistance trim the semipermanent interaction of rising temperatures.
Citing an example, helium said Annamayya territory recorded comparatively little temperatures owed to amended greenery.
The Chief Minister instructed officials to intensify consciousness campaigns and exigency preparedness measures implicit the adjacent week.
Chief Secretary G. Sai Prasad and elder officials from municipal administration, agrarian development, catastrophe absorption and wellness departments attended the reappraisal meeting.
