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Following the interaction of Cyclone Montha, dense rains battered ample parts of Annamayya territory connected Tuesday, triggering flash floods, swelling rivers, and damaging roadworthy networks successful the eastbound mandals. The Rajampeta gross part bore the brunt, signaling 210 mm of rainfall successful the past 24 hours.
The Penagalur, Railway Kodur, Rajampeta, Chitvel, and Obulavaripalle mandals received incessant downpours since Monday night. The Gunjaneru rivulet, carrying dense inflows from the adjoining Seshachalam hills, is successful spate, portion the Cheyyeru stream adjacent Rajampeta is brimming to the banks, flooding agrarian roads and low-lying areas.
The Chennai-Kadapa NH betwixt Kukkaladoddi and Anantarajupeta successful Railway Kodur mandal suffered terrible damage, disturbing vehicular traffic. Several insignificant causeways successful Railway Kodur, Chitvel, and Obulavaripalle mandals were overflowing. Horticulture Officer (Railway Kodur) Bhaskar said that contempt dense rains successful the region, nary large harvest harm was reported from the farmers.
While the Rajampeta part received downpour, 16 mandals, mostly successful the Madanapalle gross division, recorded scanty rainfall ranging from 0 to 6 mm.
District Collector Nishant Kumar connected Tuesday inspected the Nandaluru vessel (Kanyaka Cheruvu) successful Rajampet part and reviewed the flood situation. He was accompanied by elder constabulary and Revenue officials.
The Collector instructed officials to support a adjacent ticker connected h2o levels successful tanks, ponds, and rivulets and instrumentality precautionary measures successful susceptible habitations. He directed the irrigation officials to merchandise excess h2o downstream into Cheyyeru stream from the Nandaluru vessel if h2o levels crossed the reddish mark.
Disaster effect teams person been kept acceptable astatine captious locations on the Gunjaneru and Cheyyeru stream courses. The Collector said that determination is simply a round-the-clock vigil, monitoring inflows into large tanks and rivulets, and ensuring exigency entree to inundated areas.
The authoritative said that arsenic galore arsenic 7 alleviation centres were arranged successful the Rajampeta part and asked the officials to displacement the radical from the susceptible areas to the camps.
Mr. Nishant Kumar urged the nationalist to enactment indoors for the adjacent 24 hours, debar crossing flooded causeways, and determination livestock and belongings to higher ground.
