Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Sunday announced Rs 5 crore for the relief and rehabilitation work of the victims of the devastating floods that hit Tamil Nadu, especially Chennai.
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“It’s been the people all the way, the average Chennai citizen”, Manivanan said. The Indian Meteorological Centre has said that since October 1, Tamil Nadu received 64 per cent more rainfall than the usual quantity.
However, a section of the flood-affected people and volunteers, actively carrying on relief work, complained that the administration needs to walk the extra mile to complete the job at hand.
Rehabilitation and cleaning up exercises continued in the city, with the help of hundreds of people who came from other municipalities and corporation from other parts of the state.
Meanwhile, Chennai experienced intermittent rains after a two-day respite giving a scare to the citizens who are creeping back to normalcy.
“Drinking water is a megaproblem, then cooked food of any kind, followed by milk and baby food”, Srinivasan said. Please let us know what help is required from our side and we are willing to send medical teams and medicines.
The Met Office has predicted heavy showers till December 11.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi toured rain-affected parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and urged the state and central governments to be “more responsive” to people’s plight.
– A major cleaning operation was launched in the areas where the water levels have receded to prevent an epidemic outbreak. The global airport in the state capital Chennai had closed on Wednesday leaving thousands of passengers stranded, after record rains worsened flooding that has claimed almost 300 lives since Nov 9.
Railway services resumed partially, with a few trains running from Chennai’s main train station. Air India Express commenced worldwide flights.
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She said special servicing camps will be conducted by these companies from December 12 to 21 in the four flood-affected districts.
