Cyclone Montha | Ministers Ponnam, Tummala guarantee reduction to farmers who suffered crop loss

Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Tummala Nageswara Rao visited the cyclone-affected areas of Husnabad and Khammam to evaluate the injury attributable to the Montha cyclone on Thursday.

The mixed Warangal, Karimnagar, and Khammam districts bore the brunt of the cyclone’s impression. Standing crops in hundreds of acres have been destroyed, and intensive injury was reported to roads, culverts, and bridges, severely affecting connectivity and transport in a number of rural areas.

Minister for Transport Ponnam Prabhakar has mentioned unprecedented rains on Wednesday wreaked havoc in Husnabad Assembly Constituency, inflicting widespread injury to crops and roads, leaving three individuals feared lifeless.

The minister visited the rain-ravaged areas together with Chigurumamidi, Indurthi and Saidapur on Thursday to take inventory of the scenario.

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Speaking after visiting the rain-battered market yard in Husnabad, the minister mentioned the Centre ought to declare the havoc attributable to unprecedented rainfall within the State as a pure calamity and prolong assist to the State authorities to mitigate the woes of rain-affected folks. The scale of rain devastation is widespread, he mentioned, including that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy will conduct an aerial survey of the rain/flood-affected areas in Husnabad constituency limits on Friday.

Moved by the plight of Veeravva, who misplaced her whole paddy inventory that obtained washed away in heavy rain at Husnabad market yard on Wednesday, the minister handed over Rs 10,000 as speedy reduction to the distressed farmer. He mentioned the soaked paddy might be bought and compensation might be offered to the rain-affected farmers.

Around 90 households from the low-lying areas alongside the banks of the Munneru river in Khammam city have been shifted to reduction camps after the river reached 25 toes mark, the third flood warning degree, at Kalvaoddu in Khammam on Thursday.

The water degree in Munneru instantly rose because of heavy rainfall within the upstream areas of the river within the erstwhile composite Warangal district within the final 24 hours. All the streams within the river’s catchment have been in spate following the incessant rains triggered by Cyclone Montha. Floodwaters entered some residential colonies positioned near the river’s floodplains on Thursday morning.

Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageshwara Rao visited the reduction camps at Nayabazar faculty. He mentioned the Munneru river crossed the 25 toes mark earlier within the day following the cyclone-induced heavy downpour in its catchment areas on Wednesday. The water degree within the river is regularly receding, he famous, including that meals and consuming water have been offered to the flood-affected households within the reduction camps.

Crop damages might be enumerated to offer ₹10,000 compensation per acre to the farmers affected by the torrential rains. Efforts are on to obtain the soaked paddy, he added.(Eom