Members of the inter-ministerial Central team on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, visited Moranchapally in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district and Tadvai mandal in Mulugu district to assess the damage caused by heavy rains/flash floods.
Villagers of Moranchapally narrated their harrowing experiences of devastating floods before the Central team and sought government support to rebuild their damaged houses and restore their livelihoods.
Collector Bavesh Mishra and Superintendent of Police Pulla Karunakar accompanied the Central team to the flood-affected village. The district officials told the Central team that the overnight unprecedented rainfall in Chityala, Regonda and Ghanapuram mandals affected 32 villages in the district on July 27.
They apprised the team of the extensive damage to paddy, cotton, chilli, and other crops on more than 33,000 acres, dozens of houses, roads, electric poles, transformers, and distribution lines, drinking water pipelines in the last week’s flood devastation in the district.
Later in the day, the Central team inspected the damaged portions of various stretches of the National Highway at Jalagalavancha in Tadvai mandal and Gundlavagu in Pasra mandal, among other flood-affected areas in Mulugu district. Collector Ila Tripathi and Superintendent of Police Gaush Alam were present.
