Rains add to people’s woes in flood-hit Chennai

In general, however, life continues to be hard for nearly everyone as they have to battle with contaminated water – including municipal supply and well and ground water – as well as slush and filth all around their homes.

The Tirunelveli corporation has opened nine relief camps to shelter people evacuated from the banks of Tamirabarani, which received a copious inflow of 25,000 cusecs of water including, 12,000 cusecs discharged from the Papanasam dam, as reservoir levels kept rising due to heavy rain.

Jayalalithaa said in a statement that 10,000 permanent houses will be allotted here and new houses will be constructed for those who lost their huts in the floods.

IRDA has also issued instructions for the appointment of Nodal Officers for private sector insurance companies and expeditious disposal of claims by them, an official press release added.

All the actors came forward and donated funds and helped the people affected by Chennai Unpredicted Rains which disturbed daily events and Rescue operations are made, actors include Rajnikanth first he donated Rs 10 lakhs.

Railway services resumed partially, with a few trains running from Chennai’s main train station. This year’s deluge – which experts linked to the El Nino weather pattern, when the waters of the Pacific Ocean get warmer than usual – caught Chennai completely unprepared.

“I suggest that the banks may be directed to provide a limited moratorium on repayment, as well as a rescheduling of the loans, which would lower the Equated Monthly Instalment payments and offer a measure of relief”, the CM said.

Voluntary organisations have stepped up their relief efforts in the flood hit areas.

The runway at Chennai airport was partly reopened on Saturday after four days of being shut, and 34 passenger planes that had been stranded there were being flown out for technical checks at nearby centres such as Bengaluru, officials said.

Presently Air India, IndiGo, Jet Airways and TrueJet have started domestic operations.

The floods that battered Chennai was a result of bureaucratic red tape.