Montha Cyclone: Roadway between A.P. and Telangana cut-off, farms inundated

Road transportation between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has been cut-off as the streams and rivulets were overflowing on the roads at some places in NTR district on Friday. Crops in some hundreds of acres were inundated in rain water in the border villages, the farmers said.

With rain water overflowing on Lingala bridge, officials stopped traffic proceeding towards Khammam on the second day on Friday. As the road was damaged between Penuganchiprolu and Old Vemavaram and Vatsavai, only light vehicles were being allowed, the villagers said.

Police diverted heavy vehicles towards Kambampadu. A few habitations were cut-off as rain water stagnated in the colonies. Officials were continuing rehabilitation camps, the locals said.

Chilli, maize and cotton crops were damaged in New Vemavaram, Itavaram, Keesara and Lingala villages, said a farmer V. Koteswara Rao.

“Rainwater inundated Paddy, horticulture and other crops in Vatsavai, Chityala and other villages,” said another farmer B. Vasantha Rao of Lingala village, who was trying to drain out the stagnated water from the fields.

Many farmers were seen trying to save the inundated paddy, maize and chilli plantations in the villages by arranging support to the plantations. Police arranged pickets as a precautionary at all ‘saptas’ and low-level bridges on AP and Telangana borders.