Heavy rain lashes parts of Telangana, alert sounded in worst-hit two districts

With heavy rain pounding many parts of the State and weather office forecasting more of it in next couple of days, the Telangana Government has put the administration on a high alert specially in the worst affected Adilabad and Karimnagar districts.

Chief Minister K Chandraskhar Rao after reviewing the situation asked the official machinery to remain alert. He spoke to the Chief Secretary S K Joshi and Director General of police Mahinder Reddy.

The rains were the result of depression over the Northwest Bay of Bengal along the coast of Odisha. Indian Meteorlogical Centre in Hyderabad said that the depression lay centered 120 kms east-southeast of Brahmapuri and was likely to move in north-northwesterly direction over the next 24 hours and weaken in to a low pressure area. Under its

influence many parts of Telangana, neighboring Chhattisgarh, Viudarbha, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal will receive heavy to very heavy rains, the IMD said. The parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh were likely to receive moderate rains.

Heavy to very heavy rains over the next 24 hours were forecast from Adilabad, Nirmal, Mancherial, Kumaram Bheem, Nizamabad, Kamareddy, Rajanna Sricilla, Jagtiyal and Medak districts.