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The standing water from heavy rains, overflowing reservoirs and rivers tend to create breeding sites for mosquitoes

The GHMC has a major task on hand as only 15% of the city's roads have stormwater drains

Officials inform Chief Minister that standing crops to the tune of Rs 2,000 crore damaged across State

The Chief Minister annnounced the decision at a high level review meeting at Pragathi Bhavan here to take stock of the ongoing relief works in the State

Accompanied by local MLAs and officials, the Minister interacted with residents and checked whether they were being extended basic facilities.

The Minister along with Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar reviewed the rescue and relief measures being taken up in the city in view of the rains.

With rainwater entering houses in many areas, GHMC is relocating residents to nearby function halls, community halls and other places

Hyderabad district collector Swetha Mohanty is supervising the local revenue, fire, police and GHMC teams in taking up rescue operations.

If required, services of staff working at different Basti Dawakhanas in the vicinity should be utilised to extend medical services and treatment, he said.

As per information the water level in the reservoir reached the Full Tank Level of 1,763.5 feet. As a practice the authorities had sounded a siren before opening the gates.

Issues prior notices to owners to vacate the premises and facilitate demolition

At 6 pm, the water level at Hussain Sagar was recorded at 513.59 m against the FTL of 513.41 m. Officials said there was no need to panic and said the situation was under control

Minister T Srinivas Yadav, MP K Keshav Rao, Government Whip Arekepudi Gandhi, MLC K Narayan Reddy, MLAs Prakash Goud, Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, writer Parachuri Goplakrishna, singer Smitha and others uploaded their details into the website

From Jan 1 to Oct 13, city receives 102 cm against normal annual rainfall of 82 cm; heavy to very heavy rains expected today

MAUD Minister KT Rama Rao pointed out that the TRS had set an example for others by getting women to win from 79 municipal divisions though only 75 seats reserved to them of the total 150 divisions in the GHMC.

Teams of the GHMC's Disaster Response Force used boats to shift the families out from their houses to safer places or their relative’s places.

"The Forest Research Institute released a report recently revealing that the green cover in the State increased by 6-7 per cent which can be attributed to various measures by the State government."

Water entered several houses in Hassannagar, Shastripuram, Tallabkatta, Ghousenagar, Osmannagar, Jalpally and Teegalkunta in the south of the city.

The special session was called for following the Cabinet approval for amendments to the GHMC Act 1995, the Non Agricultural Land Assessment (NALA) Act, and the Registrations Act among others.

He directed officials to get residents in old and dilapidated buildings vacated and to shift them to safer places. As per the weather forecast, there is the likelihood of very heavy rainfall from tonight till Thursday.