KT Rama rao puts Hyderabad floods loss at Rs 679 crores

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 06:47 PM

KT Rama rao puts Hyderabad floods loss at Rs 679 crores

Recording highest rainfall in over a century, Hyderabad witnessed one the worst nature furies of its time. But can it be really called an act of god or is it man-made? This is billion dollar question and the debate on this will continue for a long time. Meanwhile the deluge that has been created has turned into an unimaginable havoc for people and the government authorities.

After three days of the second spell of rains, hundreds of colonies are still submerged while many are trying to make living with whatever is made available in the inundated homes! There has been an unprecedented property loss all across the city. The Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA,UD) KT Rama Rao put the tentative estimate of loss due to floods in the Hyderabad region at Rs 679 crore.

The estimate takes into consideration the damage to the city infrastructure and relief and rehabilitation efforts; the figure could rise in the coming days. A total of 33 deaths have been confirmed while three persons have gone missing due to flooding. Compensation of ?5 lakh has been paid to the kin of 29 flood victims.

So far, there has not been any response from the Centre for Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's request for financial assistance of Rs 1,350 crore, the Minister said while briefing the media about the flood response on Monday. Eighty special officers have been deployed for flood relief operations in GHMC and surrounding municipalities, and together with local officials from other departments, they will be solely on pre-disaster, disaster rescue and relief and rehabilitation tasks for the coming 15 days.

Apart from GHMC, several colonies in adjoining municipalities such as Peerzadiguda, Badangpet, Meerpet, Pedda Amberpet, and Turkayamjal too have been affected. Fifty four apartment complexes remain inundated, and power is yet to be restored in the purview of 164 distribution transformers. A total of 920 transformers have been repaired and restored so far. The damage has been more pronounced in south and east zones of GHMC.

KTR said a total of 37,000 people have been shifted to relief camps, where about 2,000 remain now. More people will be shifted in the coming days, as there is heavy rain warning for three days from IMD.