Telangana Rains: Families Near Kadam Project Evacuated

ADILABAD: The flood situation is grim following the heavy rains and people living in the downs stream and low-lying areas are being evacuated and shifted to safer places under Irrigation projects like Kadam in erstwhile Adilabad district on Thursday. The flood water is flowing high over the project gates and walls with heavy inflows into the Kadam project.

Four gates out of 18 are struck and officials are unable to operate them to discharge the water downstream.   

Again, the Kadam project has entered into a danger zone with heavy inflowing following the rain in its surrounding mandals and in upstream in Maharashtra. Officials are releasing water downstream by lifting the gates at the Kadam.

Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy after visiting the Kadam project said Kadam is receiving 3 lakh cusecs of water inflows while discharging the 2 lakh cusecs and made it clear that the Kadam project was in danger if go by the intensity of the inflows.

He said one lakh cusecs of water is getting stored in the project with heavy inflows even after discharging the water downstream.

Kadam villagers picked an argument with Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy and MLA Rekha Naik and staged a protest against them when they reached the project site alleging the present situation arise from the negligence of the officials concerned in making repairs to the project once a year.  

The villagers said it was unfortunate that they are being shifted to a safer place from their own village.

The villagers of Kadam said people from the low-lying area have shifted to a government hospital, Rythu Vedika, and the government school in Kadam and alleged that again the Kadam project has entered into danger because the officials closed the project gates yesterday.            

Indrakaran Reddy said they are taking measures to avoid any human loss and sifting the people from 13 villages to safer places.

The local MLA Rekha Naik and his associates who visited the project site got panic on seeing heavy inflows into the project and left the place immediately after they were alerted that the project was in danger.

On the other hand,  the Sripada Yellampalli projects received heavy inflows and officials discharged 4.7 lakh cusecs of water downstream by lifting the 32 gates, this resulted in flood water entering into NTR Nagar colony in Mancherial town and officials appealed to the people of the low-lying areas to go to safer places where they made arrangements for them.