Hyderabad sources have stated that with heavy downpour pummeling Telangana over the past few days, authorities are keeping a watch on the flood situation even as over 1,000 villagers were evacuated in Karimnagar district and the water had started overflowing from the bund and the earthen embankment had got breached, resulting in floods in the area.
The Special Chief Secretary (Revenue) Pradeep Chandra has told over 1,000 villagers staying in six villages near the Mid Manair dam, which was overflowing, were evacuated last evening and it was a precautionary evacuation and the situation has now improved and they will be sent back at the earliest.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had yesterday directed his ministerial colleagues to stay in their respective districts and monitor the flood situation and supervise relief and rehabilitation works.
Meanwhile the CM has asked the minister T Nageshwara Rao to maintain alertness in Khammam district as the water level in the river could reach danger level at Bhadrachalam in the district and has added that personnel have been deployed in the villages along the river bank, if necessary, the process of evacuation will begin.
