NDTV Ground Report: In Flood-Hit Thoothukudi, Entire Village Washed Away

The Tamil Nadu government has announced Rs 6,000 for ration card-holders in Thoothukudi and other severely-affected areas, and Rs 1,000 for those in Tenkasi and Kanniyakumari districts.

Floods in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi - which received 950 mm, nearly a metre, of rainfall between Sunday and Money - literally washed away villages, killing at least three people and leaving tens of thousands marooned on rooftops, surviving on air-dropped food packets and awaiting rescue. Villages literally washed away around Srivaikuntam. Houses collapsed, belongings washed away. Many are homeless and without a change of clothing. pic.twitter.com/Ub4wcMrz13 Send clothes to Tuticorin. Poor people say they lost everythingin floods including clothing. Many women are in tears saying they have no change of clothing. pic.twitter.com/idQFvgo7NH

NDTV trekked to one village - the devastated Sri Parangusanallur in the Srivaikuntam taluk that had remained cut-off till late Wednesday. Though floodwaters surrounding the village had receded, the road to Sri Parangusanallur had caved in, meaning no car or motor vehicle could reach the people.

We walked, although waded would be a better description, the quarter-kilometre to the village and, along the way, we saw destroyed huts with pieces of the tin-roofed structures strewn all around.