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The authorities is determined to find a imperishable solution to the recurring flood problems caused by the Nallamada Drain and Guntur Channel, successful the erstwhile Guntur district, Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said.
During his sojourn to the cyclone-affected villages of Returu and Appapuram successful Kakumanu mandal of Prattipadu constituency connected Saturday (November 01), the Minister inspected submerged fields and interacted with section farmers on with MLA B. Ramanjaneyulu.
Dr. Pemmasani said the portion faces 2 large issues, including, enlargement of the Guntur Channel and flood absorption of the Nallamada Drain. “Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has already identified these arsenic precedence issues and allocated funds successful the State Budget for modernization and enlargement of the Guntur Channel. Work volition statesman soon,” helium said.
Explaining the gravity of the drain issue, helium noted that floodwaters from Bapatla, Palnadu and surrounding regions converge into the Nallamada Drain, which has a capableness of 22,000 cusecs but received astir 42,000 cusecs during the caller storm. “The lone solution is to grow the canal and wide the blocked bridges,” helium added.
The Minister acknowledged that owed to the State’s existent fiscal constraints, each works cannot beryllium completed wrong a azygous year. Land acquisition of immoderate 450 acres is needed, including 120 acres of authorities onshore and implicit 300 acres of backstage land. “With rising onshore costs, we volition reappraisal the task erstwhile again and enactment towards a imperishable solution. The contented volition beryllium brought to the announcement of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, and we volition question allocations successful the upcoming budget,” Dr. Pemmasani assured.
He besides said efforts are underway to region the silt accumulated successful the Nallamada Drain to amended h2o travel and forestall aboriginal flooding.
