Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy would undertake an aerial survey of the rain-affected areas in coastal districts on Thursday.
The heavy rains, that lashed coastal districts for the last two days, have so far claimed 14 lives besides damaging standing paddy crops in over three lakhs hectares, officials said.
The Chief Minister reviewed the situation with Minister for Revenue N Raghuveera Reddy, Chief Secretary SV Prasad and Commissioner, Disaster Management, T Radha and other top officials at Secretariat in Hyderabad.
He instructed the Collectors of the affected districts to take necessary relief measures and enquired about the latest situation, an official release said in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Kiran Reddy asked the Collectors to immediately take measures to save the paddy heaps submerged in the fields and repair breaches of roads and minor irrigation tanks besides providing medical facilities to the affected people.
Over one lakh people have been affected by the heavy downpour in East and West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Krishna and Prakasam districts.
The rains also damaged 68 houses besides affecting 3,67,859 hectares of agriculture crops and 4,963 hectares of horticulture crops, it said.
Meanwhile, the Met Department has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh.
The Chief Minister will also visit the rain-affected areas of Batanavilli village in East Godavari district.
Kiran Reddy will arrive by a helicopter from Hyderabad in the afternoon and later interact with the affected farmers in the village, an official release said in Rajahmundry.
The village was severely affected due to recent heavy rains. The crops, including paddy, cotton and sugarcane, had been severely damaged.
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