With the officials discharging floodwater from the Polavaram project and the Sir Arthur Cotton (SAC) Barrage at Dowleswaram, many habitations continued to be under a sheet of water for the fifth day on Sunday.
More than 500 villages of 62 mandals in six districts were affected due to the unprecedented floods in the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, forcing the authorities to evacuate more than 75,000 people from the flooded habitations.
The authorities arranged distribution of cooked food, bread, biscuits, milk, drinking water, medicines and other essential commodities to the victims.
