It takes about 24 hours for the water to flow to Prakasam barrage in Krishna district. However neighbouring Guntur, too, gets submerged with the inflows.
Krishna and Guntur districts in Andhra Pradesh now face inundation, as water released by the Nagarjunasagar reservoir is flowing towards them. It takes about 24 hours for the water to flow to Prakasam barrage in Krishna district. However neighbouring Guntur, too, gets submerged with the inflows.
Nagarjunasagar has released 10.5 lakh cusecs of water so that it flows into the Bay of Bengal. This is a record outflow and is expected to inundate at least 100 villages. This apart, embankment breaches are likely to affect about 70 villages. Authorities have already evacuated villages likely to face flood.
Being at the tail end, Srisailam reservoir gets the first inflows from Karnataka. With Srisailam receiving record inflows of about 26 lakh cusecs, the water was released into Nagarjunasagar reservoir, which is in the downstream of Srisailam. From here, the government decided to release about 10.5 lakh cusecs into Prakasam barrage.
“We have taken all required precautions to save human lives by evacuating people from the villages along the flow. Property loss would be assessed once water passes off into the sea,” state revenue minister D Prasada Rao said.
“We have stabilised outflows from Srisailam. This should mean less inflows to Nagarjunasagar and to other reservoirs downstream. Currently, the outflows from Srisailam are at 6 lakh cusecs as against 8 lakh cusecs on Monday,” Rao said.
The government has so far evacuated 5.27 lakh people from affected areas and about 3.59 lakh people are taking shelter in about 275 relief camps. About 17.57 lakh food packets and 23 lakh water sachets have been supplied at the relief camps.
While about 20 lakh population has been directly affected due to the floods, about 20,000 livestock has been lost. Terming that the worst was over for the state, Rao said the death toll has risen to 63 with Kurnool recording the maximum deaths (38).
Mahabubnagar, another flood-affected district recorded 20 deaths while Krishna and Guntur districts recorded one death each. Nalgonda recorded three deaths. President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday spoke to chief minister K Rosaiah and enquired about the flood situation. Railway minister Mamata Banerjee, too, spoke to Rosaiah and offered to transport relief material free of cost to the affected areas.
NGOs and other organisations offering relief material like rice, clothes and other food material can now transport the material free of cost through railways. The state government has so far spent about Rs420 crore towards relief measures through the calamity relief fund (CRF).
“We have instructed the district officials to draw the required funds from the treasury to carry out the relief measures. We are yet to hear from the centre on the assistance we sought,” Rao said.
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