Gujarat govt announces Rs 5 crore assistance for flood ravaged Tamilnadu

J Jayalalithaa at the secretariat in Chennai on Tuesday, to hand over the cheque. Many households had lost valuables like personal effects and domestic durable assets, she said and added that “it can not be adequately compensated through the existing structure of relief payments”.

As people in flood-ravaged Chennai, Cuddalore and Thanjavur began picking up pieces of their lives after the unprecedented deluge, rains revisited the state and weatherman has forecast more over the next 24 hours.

He also supplying food for those from last couple of days. With massive relief operations underway, Chennai is staring at an outbreak of epidemics.

Authorities have now shifted their focus on clearing garbage and sludge from roads. However, in some respite for Chennaiites, transport services are back on track across the city.

CNN-IBN learned that red-tape has delayed a request to deal with the issue of water release from the Chembarambakkam reservoir.

The Tirunelveli corporation has opened nine relief camps to shelter people evacuated from the banks of Tamirabarani, which received a copious inflow of 25,000 cusecs of water including, 12,000 cusecs discharged from the Papanasam dam, as reservoir levels kept rising due to heavy rain.

A Delhi-based lawyer today moved the Supreme Court, seeking its immediate direction for repairing of the drainage system in Tamil Nadu to prevent waterlogging so that the state would not face any catastrophe in the future. Also, all the three subways close to Pazhavanthangal and Adambakkam became motorable. “With the rains having abated a little, we expect further claims to be reported in coming days, as more people will be in a position to assess the losses and report the same”, Sreedhar said.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister said that the relief assistance will be deposited in bank accounts of beneficiaries and aid-in-kind like rice, dhoti and saree will be distributed through Public Distribution System outlets, she said.

The Chennai death toll has gone past 270 as per latest news.