A Koya tribal farmer, Beeraboyina Ramakrishna, wades through the floodwater to reach his collapsed thatched house at Mukunur village in Alluri Sitarama Raju district.
Some 160 families in the village have borne the brunt of the Godavari floods as the habitation falls in the Polavaram project submergence area. Their houses have reduced to mounds of rubble now.
Even as the floodwater is gradually receding, the residents, a majority of them dependent on agriculture, returning to their homes to salvage whatever they can. The villagers had stored the seeds of various crops, especially paddy, harvested during the previous seasons in their houses.
