Leaders visit rain affected Palakurthy segment

Thorrur (Warangal): The leaders of different political parties and officials have visited various villages of Palakurthy constituency that were affected by recent rains. Telangana Rashtra Samithi constituency in-charge Sudhakar Rao, Telugu Desam Party senior leader Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Congress Thorrur mandal unit president Ch Srinivas, mandal Congress president K Niranjan Reddy and others visited the rain affected villages. Mahabubabad revenue divisional office Biksha Naik have also visited the villages and inspected the agricultural fields damaged due to the rains. According to the official about 300 acres of paddy and 150 acres of maize and large extent of mango orchards were damaged due to the rains. The TDP leaders Dayakar Rao who visited Rayaparthy and Kodakandla mandasl on the day has demanded the state government to immediately assess the losses and release compensation to the affected farmers. Speaking to the press persons he said that the farmers should be given compensation on par with the compensation announced by the government for those affected by Neelam cyclone It was said that in Thorrur mandal about 150 houses were damaged at Kantayapalem and Madipelli villages.