Deccan Chronicle 01.09.2009
GHMC sets up relief camps
Hyderabad
Aug. 31: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has set up two relief camps at Amberpet and Langerhouz where the residents of the areas were shifted as their houses were inundated due to the Monday rain.
According to the GHMC officials, storm water drains overflowed in a short span of time with 101.5 mm of heavy rain on early hours of Monday. Around 15 earth-movers, 10 tractors, 45 pumps were pressed into service apart from 500 labour to pump water out of the inundated areas.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has set up 24-hour helpline centres (040-23447518, 040-64620238) and requested the public to lodge complaints, if any, related to water supply, pollution of water and drainage overflows.
The meteorological department has forecasted heavy rain in the next 24 hours with Southwest monsoon active over the Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The director of the Hyderabad Meteorological Centre, Mr M. Satya Kumar, said the state was likely to witness heavy rains in the next few days with the possible formation of low pressure over Bay of Bengal.
