Multiple department officials and field staff were engaged in relief works in the flood hit Thoothukudi district and soon the relief money announced by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin would be distributed to the ration card holders, said State Chief Secretary Shivdas Meena here on Saturday.
The top bureaucrat from the TN government visited the city to take stock of the extent of damages caused due to the floods and went around pockets which were worst hit during the continuous rainfall on December 17 and 18.
Speaking to media persons, Mr. Shivdas Meena said that the very heavy rainfall had caused damages extensively. During the 40 hour downpour, the two districts - Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli had together received around 50 cm of rain. The tanks had filled up. Dams were over flowing. The rainfall recorded here was almost 50 % more than the Mettur dam’s storage capacity or 10 times more than the capacity of Papanasam dam or Manimuthar dam. This was a very heavy rainfall.
