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Thanks Ashwini Vaishnaw for taking forward long-pending assurance of establishment of a Railway Zone with Visakhapatnam as headquarters

Chandrababu Naidu is also expected to up issues regarding Railway Zone at Visakhapatnam, merger of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd with SAIL Ltd, funds for recent floods in State

Chandrababu Naidu says the government is also planning to give varying degrees of compensation to those who lost all their household appliances and articles

Tells officials that for the State to get early assistance from Centre, the estimates of losses due to floods have to be submitted at earliest

The team will visit NTR and Guntur districts on Thursday to assess the damages caused by recent heavy rains and floods

Naidu promises to provide a compensation of Rs 25,000 per hectare of lost paddy crop

Efforts were on to drain water from a few areas in Payakapuram which remained submerged for nine days

According to a status note released by the state government, 6.44 lakh people in seven districts were affected by the heavy rains and relief camps

Notes that the government was collecting data on rainfall for assessment and also clearing the blockades caused by the floods

Issues alert for Eluru, Alluri Sitaramaraju (ASR), Parvatipuram Manyam, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, West Godavari, East Godavari, NTR and Krishna districts

According to officials, NTR district, which houses Vijayawada, the most affected, accounted for 24 deaths, followed by Guntur (7) and Palnadu (1)

Three helicopters from IAF and two from Navy deployed for airdropping food items and for airlifting people stranded in inundated areas

Chief Minister says he will request the Central government to declare the flood in the State as a national calamity

As many as 19 people died in the recent rain related incidents, out of which 14 families have already received the ex-gratia, even as Reddy instructed the district collectors to clear the balance