The Chennai Company has deployed 41 boats to rescue individuals in low-lying areas.
Chennai:
The Chennai civic physique was pulled up by the Madras Excessive Court docket at the moment as town struggled with floods for the final 4 days. The courtroom has warned that it could take up the matter by itself if the state of affairs doesn’t enhance by Friday or Saturday.
“What have you ever been doing since 2015 floods? It’s a pity that half the yr we lengthy for water and remainder of the yr we’re flooded or die in water,” the courtroom noticed whereas listening to a plea for clearing of encroachments.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has blamed the erstwhile AIADMK authorities for the waterlogging within the state capital.
“Earlier authorities had finished nothing, we’re working to beat all. We do not know what they did with the Sensible Metropolis funds from the Union authorities. They didn’t work and simply collected fee. We’d institute an inquiry fee,” he stated, including that the waterlogging within the metropolis has receded to a sure extent.
Gagandeep Singh Bedi, the commissioner of Better Chennai, instructed NDTV that water is being launched regularly from Chembarambakkam lake and there might be no sudden extra discharge like 2015. Up to now, 2000 cusecs of water has been launched, one-tenth of the quantity launched in 2015.
Because the meteorological division warned about heavy to very heavy rainfall at the moment, the Chennai Company deployed 41 boats to rescue individuals in weak low-lying areas.
The civic physique has deployed 570 big pumps and 200 heavy responsibility pumps and groups are prepared in any respect zones with energy saws, earth movers and generator units.
The state authorities has appointed 5 senior bureaucrats as nodal officers to watch preventive measures and reduction in Chennai and Chengalpattu in view of the met division warning.
4 individuals have died in rain-related incidents in Tamil Nadu and 263 huts and 70 homes have been broken. Up to now, 314 individuals have been accommodated in reduction camps.
Chennai and its suburbs in Chengalpet, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts have witnessed rain since Saturday morning. It continued via Saturday night time and turned out to be the heaviest lately because the 2015 floods.
