PM assures to extend all help to AP : CM

Moved by unprecedented floods in Andhra Pradesh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today assured Chief Minister K Rosaiah of providing the all-needed assistance to take up relief and rehabilitation works in flood-affected areas.

Informing this reporters here, Mr Rosaiah, who accompanied the Prime Minister during the second leg of aerial survey of the flood affected Kurnool and Mahaboobnagar districts today, said this is the first time the Centre has given advance to Andhra Pradesh without the visit of the Central team. Never in the past the state had been given advance amount at the time of natural calamities, he said.

The Prime Minister has promised to send a central team soon and asked the state government to prepare a detailed memorandum for consideration by the Centre for assistance.

Mr Rosaiah said the Prime Minister had responded to a reporter's query in Vijayawada by asking, ''if this is not a national calamity, what else is.'' The Prime Minister was all praise for the timely action initiated by the state government to minimise the loss of lives in the flood-hit districts of Mahaboobnagar, Kurnool, Krishna, Guntur and Nalgonda and parts of Kadapa district.

He said he would undertake three-day tour of flood-affected areas, starting with Alampur in Mahaboobnagar district tomorrow. After a night halt at Kurnool, he will proceed to Guntur to inspect the damages caused by the floods in Repalli, which was submerged in flood waters due to breach of national highways road at Penumolu.

After discussing with officials and public representatives, he will proceed to Vijayawada on September 12 to visit Koduru, Nagayalanka, Avanigedda and other places affected by the floods.

-- (UNI) -- 10MS31.xml

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