VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy held a high-level review on the rains and floods on Friday and asked officials to shift the flood victims to relief camps. “The flood-victims must be provided with all facilities including food and drinking water. Start control rooms and use the services of Volunteers. MLAs must visit the flood-affected areas and help the victims,” he said.
The CM asked the collectors of Alluri Sitarama Raju, Eluru, Ambedkar Konaseema and East and West Godavari districts to be vigilant in view of the rising flood levels in Godavari.
Reviewing the flood situation through a video conference from here, the CM said the flood level at Bhadrachalam was likely to rise to 53.81 feet from the present 49.60 feet. The inflow and outflow at Dowleswaram Barrage could go up to 16 lakh cusecs from the present 13 lakh cusecs, he said.
“Because it doesn’t go above 17 lakh cusecs, the flood threat would be between the second and third warning levels, as against the flood of 26 lakh cusecs we faced last year,” Jagan Mohan Reddy said.
Extend relief and rehabilitation services to the victims with humanitarian touch, without bothering about the expenditure involved, the CM said.
He said, “The affected people should feel that the district collectors rose to the occasion. The people should be evacuated in advance, keeping in mind the six-lakh- cusecs flood threat. Facilities should be excellent in relief camps and the affected families and individuals should be given '2,000 and '1,000 respectively when they are sent back to their homes.”
If the affected people have pucca houses, they be given ' 10,000 each as compensation to repair the houses when they are sent back home. This should be done irrespective of the extent of damage. People in the submerged areas should be given 25 kg of rice and one kg each of potato, red gram, onion and palm oil freely.”
The Chief Minister stated, “As we have done in the last four years, this time also control rooms should be established from village to district level. Officials should also avail the services of secretariat staff and volunteers while taking special care in case of pregnant women and lactating mothers.”
“Be ready with stocks of drinking water sachets and daily essentials for distribution. Ensure there is no interruption in drinking water supply. There should be sufficient stocks of medicines in village clinics and PHCs, including the medicines for treating snake bite victims,” the CM said.
There should also be enough generators in the flood-affected and low-lying villages. Undertake enumeration in full transparency on the crop loss after the flood recedes, in order to help the affected farmers, Jagan Mohan Reddy told the collectors.
Home minister T. Vanitha, chief secretary Dr K.S. Jawahar Reddy, DGP K.V. Rajendranath, land administration chief commissioner G. Sai Prasad, special CS Y. Srilakshmi, (MA&UD) K. Vijayanand (energy), and Gopalakrishna Dwivedi (agriculture), civil supplies commissioner H. Arunkumar, R&B secretary P.S. Pradyumna, municipal administration commissioner P. Koteswara Rao, PR & RD commissioner A. Surya Kumari, APSHC MD Lakshmi Shah, state disaster management director BR Ambedkar and other officials were present.
