Hyderabad: Chief of Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao places the entire administration with a high alert on Thursday after heavy rain and large inflows from Upstream Maharashtra and Karnataka began to flood the country’s great plots.
KCR requested irrigation, income and police department to monitor the situation all the time until 10 August.
“More care must be taken in the Godavari River and Krishna catchment area,” CM told the Road and Building Department (R & B) to assess the flood situation and check the conditions of the road and bridge.
KCR directed the Secretary of the Head of Somesh Kumar to bring together the effective flood management team immediately.
“The team must have an officer, who has experience and knows how to take precautions and rehabilitation measures during the flood.
While maintaining flood records every year, the team must take precautions during floods based on past flood records.
The team must be formed permanently, “KCR said.
A very equipped team must have knowledge of the steps that will be taken a war in the flood, he said.
Officials say cm want one member managing rehabilitation camps and other officers to remind the army, air force and NDRF.
“Other members must coordinate with medical and health, R & B, Panchayat Raj, Income, Irrigation, and other departments, who are involved in flood and rehabilitation work,” KCR said, while reviewing the rain and the situation of flooding in the state with Pragati Bhavan officials , He instructed all departments to take steps because the weather forecast stated that heavy rainfall would occur for the next two days in the state.
“With the construction of projects in the state, water flows deep into tanks and lakes and the surface of the water has reached full capacity,” he said.
CM also asked about the flood situation of the Musi River and asked people to ensure the safety of people living in lowland areas in Hyderabad.
He instructed that HMDA and GHMC officials must destroy illegal construction of houses in lowland areas in Hyderabad.