Heavy Rain In Telangana, Chief Minister Directs Authorities To Take Precautionary Measures

K Chandrasekhar Rao instructed the officials and public representatives to take precautionary measures as water level was rising in Godavari river catchment areas.

Normal life was thrown out of gear in several parts of Telangana as torrential rains battered the state in the past 24 hours, prompting the state government to initiate relief measures. According to official sources, Narsapur (G) and two other locations in Nirmal district received extremely heavy rainfall (above 227. 5 mm), while heavy rainfall occurred in many other places in Nirmal, Nizamabad, Adilabad districts from Wednesday morning to Thursday morning. The provisional average rainfall in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) during the same period was 17.7 mm, they said. On Thursday (till 13 hours), two locations in Nirmal district received very heavy rainfall, while heavy rain was recorded at various places in the Nirmal, Nizamabad, Kumram Bheem districts.