131 families shifted to relief camps

Guntur Rain Updates : About fifty families residing at Fisheries Colony in Ramapuram village under Dachepalli mandal of Guntur district have been shifted to relief camp at ZP HIgh school in Dachepalli following release of 6 lakh cusecs of flood water from Nagarjunasagar Dam on Wednesday. Similarly, about 81families residing at Nagarjunanagar in Sattenapalli town have been shifted to Haris School. The revenue officials provided drinking water facility and arranged food to the inmates of the relief camp. The medical and health department officials set up health camps at the camps.

Flood water inundated agriculture fields in Krosuru, Achampet, Pedakurapadu and Dachepalli mandals. Gurazala revenue divisional

officer J Pardha Saradhi alerted the people residing in the low-lying areas

in the backdrop of release of 6-lakh cusecs flood water.

Meanwhile,the district collector I Samuel Anand Kumar on Wednesday conducted a review meeting with the officials to take precautionary measures to minimise losses.