Floods in River Godavari Maroon 3 Mandals of Asr District
24,000 people shifted to relief camps from low-lying areas
Visakhapatnam: The rising Godavari waters have marooned three mandals – Chintoor, V.R. Puram and Kunavaram – in ASR district, forcing evacuation of around 24,000 people.
Chintoor ITDA project officer Subham Nokhwal, talking to this correspondent on Tuesday, said the entire population of two hamlets in Chintoor has been shifted to relief camps. Of them, 89 women in various stages of pregnancy have been admitted to hospitals.
“Fortunately, striking doctors of PHCs are cooperating with us on humanitarian grounds,’’ he stated.
According to him, many roads have been cut off at several places. People have been shifted to safer places by tractors and boats. One kg of dal, a litre of oil, onions and potatoes have been supplied to each of the families evacuated. A request has been made to the government to supply rice.
The project officer hoped water levels would come down by Wednesday.
Meanwhile, CPM leaders have demanded that Rs 25,000 be given to each of the affected families marooned due to floods and Rs 50,000 to those whose crops have been inundated by flood waters.
The leaders, who visited Kuturu, Mulluru, Repaka and Bhagavanpuram villages in Kunavaram mandal of ASR district, told reporters that this is the seventh time Godavari waters have flooded the villages. Hence, they are demanding Rs 50,000 for every farmer in the mandal.
“So far, no political leader or official has visited these areas,” said mandal CPM secretary Babu Borrayya.
