Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Several residential areas in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada remained submerged on September 2 while authorities intensified rescue and relief operations.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams along with the rescue workers from various departments of the state Government were using boats to shift the people from flooded areas to relief camps.
After Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu spoke to the Home Minister Amit Shah over the phone, additional NDRF teams with speed boats rushed to Vijayawada for rescue operations.
CM Naidu, who spent the night in Vijayawada to monitor the relief operations, visited the worst affected Ajit Singh Nagar area. He enquired if the affected people were supplied food and water in the morning.
After a meeting with officials in the district collector’s office in Vijayawada on September 2 morning, the Chief Minister left for a visit to a flooded area in a boat. CM Naidu asked ministers Narayana, Kondapalli, and Kollu, who were accompanying him, to visit other affected areas.
The Chief Minister asked officials to use function halls and other premises as relief camps. He directed officials to use hotels, if necessary, for the stay of the affected people.
Meanwhile, authorities have made arrangements to cook, pack, and supply food to one lakh people. Akshaya Patra Foundation was working with the Government in preparing and supplying food.
