Cyclone Montha | Ministers Ponnam, Tummala assure relief to farmers who suffered crop loss

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BC Welfare Minister inspecting the damaged harvest  successful  the Husnabad constituency owed  to Cyclone Montha, connected  October 30, 2025

BC Welfare Minister inspecting the damaged harvest successful the Husnabad constituency owed to Cyclone Montha, connected October 30, 2025

Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Tummala Nageswara Rao visited the cyclone-affected areas of Husnabad and Khammam to measure the harm caused by the Montha cyclone connected Thursday.

The combined Warangal, Karimnagar, and Khammam districts bore the brunt of the cyclone’s impact. Standing crops successful thousands of acres were destroyed, and extended harm was reported to roads, culverts, and bridges, severely affecting connectivity and transport successful respective agrarian areas.

Minister for Transport Ponnam Prabhakar has said unprecedented rains connected Wednesday wreaked havoc successful Husnabad Assembly Constituency, causing wide harm to crops and roads, leaving 3 persons feared dead.

The curate visited the rain-ravaged areas including Chigurumamidi, Indurthi and Saidapur connected Thursday to instrumentality banal of the situation.

CM aerial survey today

Speaking aft visiting the rain-battered marketplace gait successful Husnabad, the curate said the Centre should state the havoc caused by unprecedented rainfall successful the State arsenic a earthy calamity and widen assistance to the State authorities to mitigate the woes of rain-affected people. The standard of rainfall devastation is widespread, helium said, adding that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy volition behaviour an aerial survey of the rain/flood-affected areas successful Husnabad constituency limits connected Friday.

Moved by the plight of Veeravva, who mislaid her full paddy banal that got washed distant successful dense rainfall astatine Husnabad marketplace gait connected Wednesday, the curate handed implicit Rs 10,000 arsenic contiguous alleviation to the distressed farmer. He said the soaked paddy volition beryllium purchased and compensation volition beryllium provided to the rain-affected farmers.

Around 90 families from the low-lying areas on the banks of the Munneru stream successful Khammam municipality were shifted to alleviation camps aft the stream reached 25 feet mark, the 3rd flood informing level, astatine Kalvaoddu successful Khammam connected Thursday.

The h2o level successful Munneru abruptly roseate owed to dense rainfall successful the upstream areas of the stream successful the erstwhile composite Warangal territory successful the past 24 hours. All the streams successful the river’s catchment were successful spate pursuing the incessant rains triggered by Cyclone Montha. Floodwaters entered immoderate residential colonies located adjacent to the river’s floodplains connected Thursday morning.

Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageshwara Rao visited the alleviation camps astatine Nayabazar school. He said the Munneru stream crossed the 25 feet people earlier successful the time pursuing the cyclone-induced dense downpour successful its catchment areas connected Wednesday. The h2o level successful the stream is gradually receding, helium noted, adding that nutrient and drinking h2o were provided to the flood-affected families successful the alleviation camps.

Crop damages volition beryllium enumerated to supply ₹10,000 compensation per acre to the farmers affected by the torrential rains. Efforts are connected to procure the soaked paddy, helium added.(Eom

Published - October 31, 2025 06:07 americium IST

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