The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Damage in Tiruvallur district has been put at Rs. 112 crores

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Sunday, Oct 30, 2005

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Damage in Tiruvallur district has been put at Rs. 112 crores

Staff Reporter

The administration organised 62 rescue camps for housing 24,134 people

CHENNAI: The Tiruvallur district officials who inspected the rain-affected parts of the district on Saturday have assessed the damage due to rain on Wednesday and Thursday at Rs. 112.71 crores.

The death toll in the district has gone up to 10, with two persons dying in a wall collapse in the last two days.

The flood damage included the loss of 820 km of district roads, whose estimated value was Rs.56.72 crores, a spokesman from the Collectorate said.

Project works hit

The damage to rural development project works was estimated at Rs.26 crores; and that of the Municipal Administration department Rs. 21.66 crores; About 30,000 huts and houses have been damaged. The administration organised 62 rescue camps for housing 24,134 inmates.

The spokesman said Chitra (23) of Chinnampedu village and Ellappa Reddi (65) of Perumbedu village in Ponneri taluk died in wall collapse incidents.

Family of three washed away

A family of three travelling in a car was washed away at Boomajikulam in Gummidipoondi taluk. Vinayagamurthy, 42, who drove the vehicle survived, but his wife, Padma (35), and children Harish (14) and Vinod (12) drowned.

Two boys, Mohana Velu of Ernavur village and M. Velu of Kuthampakka, Poonamallee taluk, both aged 12, drowned in stagnant pools near a railway bridge.

Yahaiya (32) and Ramesh (35) of Kumananchavadi, Poonamalle, had gone fishing in the Poondi lake.

They drowned in the Krishna water tank. The body of an unidentified boy was retrieved from Retteri in Madhavaram village limits.

Rural Industries Minister B. Valarmathi and Pallipattu MLA P.M. Narasimhan along with District Collector Pankaj Kumar Bansal visited the affected areas and inspected works for pumping out water from flooded areas in Thiruvottiyur, Minjur, Ponneri, Gummidipoondi and Tiruvallur.

Ambattur Industrial Estate

With rain-water inundating 90 per cent of industries in Ambattur industrial estate, most small and medium scale factories are in knee-deep water and expensive, imported and indigenous machinery, including finished and raw materials have been damaged.

Over 2 lakh employees, most of them women, have been affected. Losses are estimated to run into crores of rupees, says a press release from Ambattur Industrial Estate Manufacturers' Association.

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