Nellore still under the sheet of flood water
There was six feet of water in RTC bus stand during heavy rain
Nellore: Though it has been a week since heavy rain lashed Nellore district, many areas are under a sheet of water in Gudur, the second biggest town in the district.
Encroachments as well as breaches to the tanks in the villages located on the western side of the town are the reason for the situation turning as bad as in Nellore. Heavy rain on Sunday added to the woes of the people of the town.
Aadi Sankara Engineering College, Narayana Engineering College, SV Arts College and Vidyalaya Degree College are under knee-deep water since last Tuesday.
The situation is no different in several low-lying areas in the town including Narasingaraopeta, BC Colony, Madhreddy Colony on Vindoor Road, Bangisahebpeta, Ashok Nagar, Santhi Nagar and Pulathota Colony because of the downpour to the extent of 10 cm on Sunday night.
Gudur legislator Pasam Suneel Kumar criticised the official machinery for paying attention to VIP visits and ignoring the plight of people living in affected areas.
He alleged that the compound wall of Narayana Engineering College had blocked water from Gudur reaching the Pambaleru and Chllakaluva downstream.
Gudur advocate Y.Chalapathi Rao has attributed the waterlogging in the town to conversion of agricultural lands on the outskirts of the town as residential plots and construction of houses in them.
He felt that construction of educational institutes such as Narayana Engineering College and Karunamayi College in low-lying areas obstructed water flow from the town to Pambaleru and Challakaluva.
He underlined the need to remove encroachments on irrigation canals on a war footing similar to the exercise going on in Nellore to protect Gudur from submerging. There was six feet of water in RTC bus stand during heavy rain and this is an indicator for the worse situation in the town, he added.
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