Andhra Pradesh - Guntur   

Ogni-hit Nagaram mandal still under water

Staff Reporter

Collector reviews situation with officials

GUNTUR: Eighteen days after cyclone Ogni hit the Guntur, Krishna and Prakasam coast, some villages in Nagaram mandal of Guntur district are still under water and the district administration is running a relief camp for 1,000 persons.

Sample testing

District Collector G. Jayalakshmi on Wednesday reviewed the situation with officials of all departments concerned and told reporters that 375 families were still in the camp with mobile health teams visiting all the families who had returned to their houses.

Sample testing of groundwater was being done everyday and 91 sources were closed, as they were not having potable water. Drinking water was being supplied through tankers to all these localities.

The total loss in all aspects has been finally put at Rs. 386 crore and out of that Rs.143 crore is on account of crop loss. Sarpanches were being involved to distribute the compensation and relief materials in the villages and 15,705 houses were found damaged.

The district had asked for Rs.20 crore as input subsidy for new crop and Rs.1.79 crore for horticulture crop.

District Consultative Committee of Bankers decided to reschedule the loans of all farmers in the affected areas. The loans taken during khariff would be rescheduled to 5 years with and fresh loan given for Rabi.

The scale of finance would be kept intact.

RBI circular

Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of India had given circular waiving off the interest on overdue loans as on July 1. "Guntur is among the 16 districts chosen in Andhra Pradesh and the quantum of such loan was Rs.1,251 crore, and each bank has to work out the quantum of interest to be waived," Ms. Jayalakshmi said.

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