HYDRAA commissioner visits areas flooded by rainwater

The Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Protection Agency (HYDRAA) commissioner AV Ranganath toured the areas flooded with rainwater in Hyderabad on Thursday, September 18, and interacted with the people in the flooded colonies.

At Sriram Nagar locality of Baghlingampally, water had inundated the roads and entered the houses. The residents informed Ranganath that a nala passing through the area was deliberately blocked to grab government land beside it.

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residents questioned how could they enter their houses through waist-high flood waters on the roads, and said that even removing the water using the motors wasn’t helping.

The residents suggested restoring the nala, which could address the flooding issue. Ranganath, who directed the officials to take steps to prevent flooding of the colony in 2-3 days, also suggested digging another nala to divert the water from Sriram Nagar till the main nala which delivers the water in Hussain Sagar.