Kupti (Adilabad): The standing crops, cotton, redgram and soya on hundreds of acres are submerged in the floodwaters following the incessant rains that struck in the last four days in the district. The heavy rains that lashed various places badly hit the standing crops in the plant growing stage itself causing much damage to the yield. The streams and rivulets were overflowing as also rivers Penganga and Pranahitha while Godavari received comparatively good amount of water.
The Kadam river which was in spate inundated the standing crops in 700 acres in Kupti and Kumari villages of Neredigonda while flowing downstream into the Kuntala waterfall and subsequently into Kadam irrigation project. Kadam river is overflowing due to heavy rains in the upstream and all the rivulets and streams coming from Boath and Bajarhathnoor merged into Kadam at Kupti village.
Bheemraj Goud of Kupti said the river was in spate after 2013 when hundreds of acres were submerged in the floodwaters and farmers incurred huge losses. Now the Kadam river again devastated the standing crops caused huge loss to farmers. B. Vijay Kumar of the same village said floodwaters entered into the agriculture fields located close to the Kadam river and inundated standing crops. Crops in nearly 800 acres out of 1,200 acres along the river were inundated.
A portion of a historical Kupti bridge was washed away in the floodwaters taking onlookers by surprise. Irrigation officials released 5,000 cusecs of water from the Gaddanna Vagu irrigation project by lifting two gates in Bhainsa and water was also released from Kadam, Mattadi Vagu and Swarna to downstream as all the irrigation projects received rainwater to their full capacity. Flood water entered the houses in low-lying areas and breached the roads affecting the connectivity to the villages at various places and the situation has become worse due to rivulets and overflowing streams in Chennur and Sirpur (T) Assembly constituencies.
Most of the low-lying bridges were submerged in the floodwaters and disrupted the transportation to many villages in the above two constituencies. People using country made boats to reach their destinations to escape from the village were surrounded by the floodwaters following the heavy rains. Temporary bridges were washed away in the flood waters at Belgoam village in Jainad mandals resulted in disruption of road connectivity. Coal production was affected in the opencast mines Dorli I and II, Khairiguda, Srirampur and Ramakrishnapur as the waters entered the mines. The SCCL has suffered loss of 20 cores in terms of coal production affected due to heavy rains in the last four days. Road connectivity disrupted to Kubheer village from Bhaina as the Gaddanna vagu project waters came onto the roads.
