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District Collector Muzammil Khan inspected the flooded colonies in the fourth ward of Wyra municipality and low lying colonies near Wyra reservoir and interacted with the residents. He told the residents to stay in relief centres set up by the government until the flood recedes.

The flood levels at Bhadrachalam are anticipated to reach critical warning points within the next 24 hours. This marks the second flood event in the river within five weeks.

The project, built on the Nallavagau stream, a tributary of river Godavari, attained its full reservoir level of 747 MCft

SRSP Superintending Engineer says water level almost reached 90%, hence the floodgates of the project were lifted and released into Godavari

Senior BRS leader and former MP B Vinod Kumar said the State government was doing injustice to farmers by denying irrigation water with a grudge against BRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao.

Rallavagu is a tributary of Godavari river and once a source of irrigation for farmers. It flows for 7.5 kilometres in the town. However, the structures including huts were built in the buffer zone of the stream, affecting the course of the water body.

In broad daylight, dozens of sand laden trolleys hitched to tractors are zooming along the streets of Old Mancherial, Laxminagar, NTR Nagar, and many other parts of Mancherial town.

G Uday Kiran said that Altheti Ajay (19), a degree student and Gandham Charan (19) from Kondapur village in Dandepalli mandal met a watery grave when they were taking dip in a deepest spot of the river.

Water woes continue to haunt the farming community in the command area of the project even as Godavari, its sole source for drawls, had bountiful flood flows right from June

The locals who spotted the male child wrapped in plastic sheets informed police.

Bhatti, who held a review meeting on the power sector, said since all the reservoirs in the State were full, the power officials should take steps to generate maximum power through hydel power plants.

They discussed the redesign and repairs of the Peddavagu project which was breached recently due to heavy rains in Kothagudem district.

Widespread rains for the last two days in Kothagudem and Khammam districts disrupted normal life, coal production and transportation

The woman was not yet traced as the river was flowing at 37 feet height

Under pressure from farmers and elected representatives to support the Kharif operations, officials have decided to release water to the project from Mid Manair reservoir from August 4.

BRS leaders in Siddipet district also demanded the government to release water into Sangareddy, Ramayampet, Turkapally, and Jagadevpur canals besides filling all the minor irrigation tanks as an immediate relief to farmers.

The water level crossed the 53 feet mark at 4.16 pm and at 7 pm the water level was 53.30 feet with a discharge of 14.40 lakh cusecs.

Officials issued a second warning late night on Friday after the water level crossed 48 feet. Water level at 6 am on Saturday was 50.50 feet with a discharge of 12.86 lakh cusecs and at 9 am it came down to 51.40 feet with a discharge of 13.37 lakh cusecs.

State government made no budget allocations for SLIP and BLIP that were envisaged to provide irrigation and drinking water to Sangareddy district.

The water level crossed the second warning level for the first time this season on July 22. It started receding on Wednesday at 10 pm the water level was 45.10 feet with a discharge of 10, 18,806 cusecs.