Three villages marooned by flash floods in Bargur Hills area

Heavy rainfall that lashed the Bargur Hills country precocious connected Monday triggered flash floods successful the Palar and Maniyachi Pallam watercourse and marooned Kuttaiyur, Velampatti, and Mattimarahalli villages on the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka borderline successful Erode district.

Due to the floods, implicit 250 families successful the villages person been incapable to permission their homes for enactment oregon for purchasing indispensable commodities. While the Palar flows connected 1 broadside of these villages, the Maniyachi Pallam watercourse runs connected the other.

Villagers said normalcy would instrumentality lone aft the waters recede. They added that predominant flooding severely affected schoolchildren, who had to transverse the watercourse to scope their schools successful Makkampalayam and Kadambur. They person urged the State authorities to conception high-level bridges crossed the river, and the watercourse to guarantee harmless connectivity during the monsoon.

When contacted, Collector S. Kandasamy told The Hindu that the flash floods were impermanent and that h2o had started receding by the extremity of the day. He said gross officials were successful interaction with the residents and had ensured that each indispensable supplies were disposable to radical successful the 3 hamlets.

Mr. Kandasamy added that a connection to conception 2 bridges crossed the stream and watercourse had already been submitted, and enactment would commence erstwhile support is obtained. “Bridges are the lone imperishable solution for connectivity for the radical successful the 3 hamlets,” helium said.