KCR stressed on the need to conduct a comprehensive survey to keep people safe during floods.
Warangal (Telangana):
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has ordered the immediate release of Rs 1 crore each as flood relief assistance to the district administrations of Mulugu, Bhupalpally, Kothagudem, Mahabubabad and Nirmal.
A release issued by the CMO late on Saturday night said that the Chief Minister directed Finance Minister Harish Rao to set up medical camps and supply adequate medicine and food to the flood victims and all districts in view of the continuous flooding in the Godavari river. Advised collectors to be on high alert. For a few more days.
Rao, who arrived here from Hyderabad on Saturday to visit the flood-affected areas, held a review meeting with ministers, MLAs, top officials, MLCs and district public representatives.
He stressed on the need to conduct extensive surveys to keep people safe and move people from low-lying areas during the Godavari floods. He suggested that the officers should take advice and opinion from the retired engineers of the Irrigation Department in this regard.
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