Tamil Nadu receives 68 per cent excess rainfall

Tamil Nadu has gained sixty eight per cent extra rainfall during the ongoing northeast monsoon and a few people and above 300 heads of cattle ended up killed in the past 24 several hours, the Federal government claimed on Saturday.

Significant quantum of h2o was getting unveiled from reservoirs which include at Mettur in Salem, which caters to the Cauvery delta districts.

Thenpennai river in Villupuram was overflowing whilst Palar in Kancheepuram was brimming.

Minister for Revenue and Disaster Administration, KKSSR Ramachandran claimed the point out has gained 518.ninety nine mm of rainfall from Oct 1 until day, which was an extra of sixty eight per cent during this time period.

Thirty 7 districts in the point out gained rainfall in the past 24 several hours, with Tirupathur district acquiring the maximum of 39.91 mm, he claimed in a release.

In Villupuram, 18,five hundred hectares of farm lands ended up inundated because of to the overflowing Thenpennai and initiatives ended up on to crystal clear the h2o.

All over ten,000 people in the district have been lodged in 220 relief camps.

In neighbouring Cuddalore district, the quantity of folks in such camps was 4,000.

“In the past 24 several hours, a few people have been killed in Krishnagiri and Tiruvannamalai districts,” he claimed, adding 368 heads of cattle experienced also perished.

Although 65,000 cusecs of h2o was getting unveiled from Mettur, the quantum at Poondi, which caters to Chennai, was 29,684 cusecs.

Teams of NDRF ended up included in a variety of things to do in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Vellore.

Even further, 419 camps ended up energetic in fourteen districts of the point out where by a very little above 34,000 people, evacuated from small-lying parts, have been housed, Ramachandran additional.