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With the interaction of Cyclone Montha, incessant rains were witnessed successful SPSR Nellore and Prakasam districts from Monday midnight. People from some these districts, peculiarly the regular wage labourers, faced terrible problems owed to the downpour.
Ongole Municipal Corporation (OMC) Commissioner K. Venkateswara Rao informed that a blocked drainage adjacent railway-under-bridge (ROB) country was cleared by removing the grill astatine Balaji Nagar successful Ongole. He said that the drain works were being done astatine NTR Colony to debar inundation.
The continuous rains successful the catchment areas and dependable inflows from upstream led to rising h2o levels successful Penna stream and Somasila reservoir successful Nellore district. The reservoir’s contiguous level is 67 tmcft, portion the afloat retention capableness is 77 tmcft.
The drains and canals were besides overflowing successful Nellore city, portion fewer trees and electrical poles fell down connected the roads causing postulation jams. TDP person Kotamreddy Giridhar Reddy, on with the municipal staff, inspected the canal desilting works astatine 19th part of Nellore Rural constituency.
Two electrical poles, a transformer, and a thenar histrion fell down astatine 14th part successful Balaji Nagar. On receiving the information, the section corporator Kartham Prathap Reddy reached the country and inspected the scene. He directed the acrophobic municipal authorities to resoluteness the issues.
Municipal Commissioner Y.O. Nandan inspecting the drain clearing works successful Nellore connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: HANDOUT
Nellore Municipal Corporation (NMC) Commissioner Y.O. Nandan is touring extensively successful the city. He instructed the sanitation unit to instrumentality steps to guarantee that h2o does not stagnate connected the roads owed to the rains. He said that 14 cyclone rehabilitation centres were acceptable up successful the NMC limits.
He inspected each cyclone-affected low-lying areas crossed the metropolis and monitored the facilities arranged astatine rehabilitation centres. He observed the complaints received by the power country helpline and gave instructions to the unit for contiguous redressal of issues during the cyclone.
