Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao ordered education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy to declare a holiday for educational institutions on July 28 (Friday) in the wake of heavy rains in the state.
He has also ordered CS Shanti Kumar to use Army helicopters for rescue operations in the flood areas. KTR the Minister for Municipal Administration has decided to visit the flood areas in person.
KCR from Pragathi Bhavan and KTR from his office are supervising the flood situation in the state, apart from the rescue operations from time to time.
After carrying out a rescue operation for more than eight hours, the police officials rescued all 80 members of the visitors who were stranded in the dense forest while they were returning with an overflow of a stream present in the forest here in Mulugu district in the early hours today.
More than half of the buildings located in the GHMC limits are at high risk of getting affected in the event of floods, according to a flood susceptibility-based building risk (FSBR) under climate change research conducted by the BITS Pilani Hyderabad, in the GHMC area.
Due to heavy downpours of water with incessant rains that lashed out from Wednesday morning to Thursday the entire Morancha village was inundated in flood water with the overflow of water from Morancha vagu at danger levels here in Jayashankar Bhupalpalli district today.
Around 1,000 members of the villagers are stranded in the floodwater. They are waiting for the rescue teams.
During the last 24 hours ending at 8.30 am today, Tamada village under Srikakulam district received the highest rainfall of 21.8 cms in the State followed by Govindapuram 14.5 cms, Appannapalem 13.9 cms (both in Vizianagaram) in the Telugu states.
