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Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy and Kovur MLA Vemireddy Prashanthi Reddy met Union Home Minister Amit Shah successful New Delhi, requesting the modernisation of flood walls successful Vidavalur and Indukurpeta mandals to support paddy fields successful the SPSR Nellore territory from seasonal floods successful the Penna river.
With the predominant floods breaching the banks of the Penna River, affected farmers person been raising a hue and cry, demanding a lasting solution.
The leaders presented the request to fortify the existing walls and to signifier caller bunds wherever indispensable to forestall the raging stream from gushing into the adjoining fields during the monsoon season, thereby eliminating the anticipation of flooding and preventing avoidable harm to the crops.
It whitethorn beryllium recalled that the merchandise of excess h2o from the Somasila reservoir into the Penna River successful November 2021 resulted successful the flooding of respective villages successful the Kovur constituency, pushing Buchireddypalem, Vidavalur, Kovur, and Indukurpeta mandals successful knee-deep h2o and bringing beingness to a standstill for respective days.
Recalling the nightmare suffered successful her constituency successful the past, Ms. Prashanthi Reddy stressed the urgent request to ‘floodproof’ the vicinity of the river.
Similarly, Mr. Prabhakar Reddy pointed retired that the past Gandhi Ashram astatine Pallipadu, a memorial built connected the banks of stream Penna to commemorate the sojourn of Mahatma Gandhi to this small colony arsenic portion of his Satyagraha movement, suffered a large-scalebreach successful up to 7.5 acres.
“The Ashram, which is hailed arsenic the ‘Sabarmati of the South’, faces a conflict for beingness today,” the MP explained to the Home Minister, appealing for a retaining partition from the Ashram to Pallipadu colony astatine an outlay of ₹167 crore.
The leaders besides requested the centre for forming the flood partition astatine a outgo of ₹69 crore successful Indukurpeta Mandal and different successful Vidavalur Mandal astatine a outgo of ₹95 crore.
Mr. Shah has reportedly assured the duo to instrumentality up the said works nether the National Disaster Management Authority.
