Rainfall continued to lash erstwhile undivided Adilabad on Monday and reportedly claimed its first victim in Indervelli mandal. Septuagenarian Sonkamble Sakkubai, resident of Buddhanagar in Indervelli mandal of Adilabad district, died of fever after getting wet in the earlier spell of rainfall.
According to reports, Sakkubai was soaked in the rainfall on August 16 and had worn clothes which got wet as her house got inundated. She began shivering due to cold and succumbed.
The enumeration teams of Revenue and Agriculture officials, to assess crop damage, could not move out because of the rainfall.
Meanwhile, the current spell of rainfall had hill steams in spate once again and brought fresh inflows into projects. The overflowing Vadgaon stream in Indervelli mandal had Jaithram tanda cut off.
The 40 families inhabiting this hamlet cross the check dam across Vadgaon stream to reach the mandal headquarter. As water was overflowing, they remained cut off. Adilabad Superintendent of Police announced aid amounting to ₹4 lakh to the flood victims in Adilabad and alerted policemen across the district to be ready to provide relief to people who face difficulties. Utnoor DSP N. Venkatesh had a look at the marooned Jaithram tanda and instructed Indervelli SI A. Gangaram to keep a watch on the developments.
Projects received heavy inflows but there was no consistency in the flow. Inflows in Kadem dam in Nirmal district were over 60,000 cusecs at 3 p.m. and the surplus discharge of nearly 77,000 cusecs was being made by raising nine flood gates.
The Satnala project in Jainad mandal received 13,500 cusecs but at the peak of the inflows about 21,000 cusecs of water was released to maintain water level at 285.35 ft against a full reservoir level of 286.5 ft. The outflow at Mathadivagu project was 1,600 cusecs to maintain water level at 276.5 ft against a FRL of 277.5 ft. while 1,900 cusecs of water was released from Swarna project in Nirmal district.