Military helicopters on Tuesday were sent to rescue those trapped by waters in hard-hit areas across the state, which has witnessed incessant rains over the past week.
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The weathermen have forecast widespread rain over Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Puducherry.
The city had experienced incessant rain and an overcast sky during the last couple of days. “Power supply was disrupted for more than 15 hours during the weekend”. 71 people have died in rail related incidents so far.
Continuous torrential rain has paralysed most parts of the state of Tamil Nadu.
There would be decrease in rainfall as the well marked low pressure area over southwest Bay of Bengal has moved off north Tamil Nadu coast and would cross south Andhra Pradesh coast. The Aam Aadmi Party and its volunteers have rose to the occasion to launch rescue and relief operations with its limited resources yet a huge dedicated volunteer network at its disposal. West Tambaram, a suburb of Chennai, is one of the worst affected as hundreds of homes have been flooded.
Naturally, this has resulted in many theatres being flooded and the management has had to shut them down.
In many places, parked cars and two-wheelers have been totally submerged. Those living in the apartments found refuge in their neighbour’s place.
Jayalalithaa said that besides spending for relief and rehabilitation, the allocation would also be used for disbursement of solatium to affected people.
With the destruction, the CM directed the state officials to fasten the relief and rehabilitation thus forcing to announce 500 crores aid. After taking a stock at the situation and holding discussions with the state officials, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa allocated Rs 500 for the relief of people.
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He said efforts should be made to get Central government’s disaster relief fund on a large scale and wanted the government to try “to solicit funds from the rich in Tamil Nadu for disaster relief”.
