Chief minister Chandrababu Naidu summoned 30 IAS officers to flood-ravaged Nellore district to oversee the relief operations and to complete the enumeration of damage caused by the cyclone in the past five days. He spoke to chief secretary IYR Krishna Rao and instructed to dispatch the officials immediately.

Accompanied by municipal administration minister P Narayana and officials, Naidu toured in the flood affected areas in Nellore district on Saturday. He directed the R&B officials to take up repair works all the roads damaged on war- footing with in 3days.

The CM was terribly upset that all breaches occurred in Nellore district only on roads built in the recent past. Expressing displeasure over the poor quality of the work, he said he was wondering as to how the old bridges and culverts built during British era had still been intact while the ones built in the recent past were being washed away. ” The inefficiency is playing havoc with the lives of the people during floods. And the traffic goes awry whenever there is rain,” he said.

Reviewing relief operations with senior officials, the CM instructed the district collector to set up committees with revenue officials to assess cyclone- related loss in all the villages in the district and complete the process in a couple of days. The CM also asked the police officials to regulate the traffic on NH 5 at Manubolu village where repair work was going on to close the breach caused by heavy flood.

Talking to media on the bund of Sarvepalli reservoir he said he wanted to personally oversee the relief operation by remaining in Nellore on Sunday as well. He said for the first time in the past 60 years the district had received about 85 cms rain in just five days. About five hundred villages have been ravaged by floods in the district.