Hyderabad likely to witness heavy rainfall today & tomorrow

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad may witness heavy rain on September 27-28 after the cyclone moves towards south Chhattisgarh and its neighbouring areas. After it crosses, parts of Telangana will receive heavy rains for one or two days,” said A Shravani, meteorologist, India Meteorological Department, Hyderabad.
After IMD Hyderabad said that heavy rains may lead to flash floods in parts of city, the GHMC’s disaster management troops were kept on standby and all leaves were cancelled.
District collectors were directed set up control rooms in the respective collectorates as IMD issued red alert to the north Telangana districts and yellow alert to southern parts of the state. “The police department must coordinate with other departments to ensure that relief measures were taken up on a war foot wherever needed. Special focus should be on low-lying areas and the tanks which were likely to suffer breaches because of heavy inflow of rain water into it,” Kumar said.
The services of the NDRF teams should be utilised wherever necessary and that respective district administration should maintain a high vigil to ensure that people did not cross rivulets and canals that were expected to overflow because of heavy inflows, he said.
The collectors were told to nominate special officers to all the mandals to ensure that there was no loss of life or property. Also, the officials should take the help of citizens in conducting relief works. All the necessary precautionary measures should be taken and constant monitoring of water levels in various tanks and reservoirs should be done, the chief secretary said.