The heavy rains that have wreaked havoc in Hyderabad throwing the normal life out of gear for the last two weeks has caused immense damage to the reputation of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government.
The much-publicised Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) on Godavari river in Telangana was built without taking environmental clearance. It was granted only after the completion of the project.
The Telangana government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, which has been facing allegations of utter negligence in coming to the rescue of the people affected by heavy rains and flash floods in Hyderabad for the last one week, has finally woken up.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday announced Rs 10,000 as immediate assistance to each household affected by the floods in and around Hyderabad.
Heavy rains and flash floods have caused untold misery to hundreds of families in Hyderabad as many of them lost everything in the worst natural calamity to strike the city in recent years.
Battered twice by heavy rains and flash floods twice during the last one week, Hyderabad and its surroundings are likely to see another spell of intense rainfall as the weather office forecast more downpour on Sunday.
Heavy overnight rain left several parts of Hyderabad flooded. The heavy rain caused the Hyderabad's Balanagar Lake breach its boundaries last night, causing huge flash floods in nearby areas.
The major accident that happened in Kalwakurthy Lift Irrigation Project in Yellur village of Nagarkurnool district on Friday night has exposed the indifferent attitude of the Telangana government.
The devastation caused by torrential rains and flash floods in and around Hyderabad this week is another grim reminder of the havoc played with the chain of lakes and storm water drains that were working as a natural flood control system.
Dozens of colonies in Hyderabad and nearby areas remained inundated for the fourth consecutive day on Friday even as authorities scrambled to pump out floodwaters from waterlogged areas and provide relief to rain-hit people.
It is now official. The Telangana government on Thursday declared that heavy rains and flash floods that ravaged different parts of the state since Tuesday resulted in the death of 50 people and left a trail of destruction that is estimated to have caused a loss of Rs 5,000 crore to properties and crops.
A woman had a narrow escape when a dilapidated structure abutting the famous Akanna Madanna temple in the old city of Hyderabad collapsed.
Telangana has slashed the number of daily Covid-19 tests in the last few days which has resulted in fewer cases being reported.
Many colonies in Hyderabad and suburbs remained under water on Thursday while Army and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel continued rescue and relief work in the flood-hit areas.
Fifteen people have died in Hyderabad in rain related incidents, following incessant rainfall that lashed the city and different parts of Telangana, leading to waterlogging on roads and inundation of some low-lying areas.