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The Nandyal and Kurnool territory administrations connected Thursday (May 21, 2026) person warned of a terrible heatwave successful the 2 districts implicit the adjacent week.
Nandyal Collector Rajakumari Ganiya said aggravated vigor was apt to proceed until May 26, and urged the elderly, young children, large women and radical with chronic illnesses to instrumentality peculiar precautions.
She advised radical to enactment indoors successful the day but successful an emergency, and to decorativeness unavoidable outdoor enactment earlier 9 a.m. oregon aft 5 p.m.
She directed officials to instrumentality peculiar precautions for workers nether panchayats, municipalities, the Employment Guarantee Scheme and different nationalist works. Such enactment should beryllium scheduled for the aboriginal greeting oregon evening, she said, and asked officials to supply drinking water, shadiness and remainder facilities for the workers.
Officials were directed to supply capable drinking h2o astatine autobus stands, markets, junctions, hospitals, schools, authorities offices and labour assembly points. Temporary h2o kiosks should beryllium acceptable up wherever necessary, she said.
Ms. Rajakumari asked officials to place susceptible groups specified arsenic the stateless and the elderly, and to supply them with ORS packets, first-aid supplies and drinking h2o done ward-level teams.
Urban section bodies were besides directed to spot h2o bowls and earthen pots successful parks, markets and nationalist spaces for stray animals and birds, and to person them refilled regularly.
Kurnool Collector A. Siri directed municipal commissioners and officials to instrumentality contiguous preparedness and alleviation measures, and said peculiar attraction indispensable beryllium paid to preventing heat-related illnesses and deaths. She directed officials to guarantee capable drinking h2o astatine autobus stands, markets, postulation junctions, labour assembly points, hospitals, schools, authorities offices, structure centres and different crowded areas.
She called for cooling shelters, shaded resting areas, escaped h2o organisation centres and impermanent h2o kiosks. The Collector ordered municipal commissioners and officials to personally supervise the measures each day.
State-wide alert
The Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (APSDMA) warned that terrible heatwave conditions were apt to proceed crossed respective parts of the State implicit the adjacent 4 days, and advised radical to debar question during the highest day hours.
The season’s highest somesthesia truthful far, 47.6 degrees Celsius, was recorded astatine Piduguralla successful Palnadu district, and the mercury crossed 45 degrees Celsius successful 11 districts, the APSDMA said.
(With inputs from PTI)
