Many areas in Chennai still remain under water and supplies of essentials was hard, said residents.
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“We live in a city expecting that we will have access to basic facilities”. The two leaders are expected to meet late in the afternoon today.
Soldiers set up 25 temporary shelters and community kitchens and installed portable toilets. “That said, it’s something we normally do especially in the cases of¿”, he said.
The federal weather office has predicted two more days of torrential rain in the southern state, where almost 70 million people live.
City authorities were deploying bulldozers and bags of concrete to fix collapsed roads and bridges.
“We express our deepest condolences to the families of the people who have perished in these floods, and our thoughts are with those families who are still trapped and whose livelihoods are affected”, he said.
According to the ministry officials, more than 100 calls were received by Thursday noon. “It would not be an exaggeration to say that Chennai has become an island as it has been cut off from all national and State highways”, he said. “He said Chennai was a growth centre and anything that affected Tamil Nadu affected the whole country”, a State Government release said. Assocham, an industry lobby, estimated that financial losses from the floods could exceed $2.25 billion.
“Chennai is stinking and it is shocking to see how it has collapsed in the last 48 hours”, said Anant Raghav, 56, a professor at the University of Madras.
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Houses are submerged in floodwaters in Chennai. “Food, clothes – all gone”, she told the Reuters news agency.
