Krishna fury: Rehabiliated villages in Kurnool submerged

Udumula Sudhakar Reddy/Srisailam backwaters

The rehabilited villages in Jupadu Bungalow mandal during the construction of Srisailam reservoir which are though to be safer places are now worst hit due to backwater floods.80 Bannur, Chabolu, Pothulapadu and Tarigopula and several other villages in the mandal are affected due to the floods where thousands of hectares of crop was damaged and villagers had left to relief camps.M Lingaswamy of Chabolu says ,”we never thought that flood will affect our village as we are settled in the safer place two decades ago. It was the huge flood which I never saw in my life,”The road connecting Kurnool to Guntur was cut off at several places including Bannur and Rudravaram paralyzing the transport.Ex MLA of Nandikotkuru Mr Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy who was visiting the affected villages with the relief material says ,”the Srisailam backwater has inundated them. The relief help of the government is not reaching these areas.The water flow in Pothireddypadu head regulator has decreased.:”The capacity of the regulatory was only 40thousand cusecs and more than one lakh cusecs of water had flown through this.,” said Rajasekhara Reddy.On the other hand the Sunkeshula dam was emptied after the bunds broke and there is no water in KC canal.“The drinking water supply to several towns in the district ill be affected as Sunkeshula emptied. On the other hand around 2.5 lakh hectares of crop under KC canal irrigation both official and unauthorized will be lost,” said Mr Reddy.