Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Jan. 17: Farmers are eagerly waiting for flood assistance from the state government as they had suffered heavy losses during floods in Kurnool district. They are expecting assistance as the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, will review district development in Hyderabad on Monday. During kharif season, farmers suffered losses due …
In early October 2009, flash floods hit southern India. The disaster affected nearly two million people and claimed hundreds of lives. Oxfam India responded by providing relief provisions to 13,000 households in two of the worst affected districts, Bagalkot in Karnataka and Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh.
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai December 21, 2009, 0:01 IST The Union home ministry wants state governments to take proactive action against illegal mining as it has become a national security threat. In a recent meeting with the states, the home ministry said that windfall profits from such mining of minerals …
Anantapur, Nov. 25: Mining and transport activity of iron ore of six mining companies in H Siddapuram, Obulapuram and Malpangudi villages in D Hirehal mandal, came to a halt as the Anantapur mines and geology assistant director, Mr S. Sairam Singh, reached the mining site and issued them government orders …
Hyderabad, Nov. 24: A division bench comprising Chief Justice Anil R. Dave and C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday, told the counsel for the Centre to inform its stand on the issue of declaring the recent floods in the five districts as a national calamity. …
Hyderabad, Nov. 10 The Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation and the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) are all set to enter into an MoU by this month-end for exploration of iron ore in Kadapa, Kurnool, Chittoor and Karimnagar districts in the State for setting up of benefication plants. The Department …
Hyderabad, Nov. 8: Unabated cattle grazing is causing thousands of hectares of greenland in the tiger reserve area in Nallamala to dwindle, wildlife experts have warned. They say the buffer zone is eroding, and forest officials are unable to prevent locals from entering into the restricted area with cattle. As …
Oct. 26: Nearly 7,500 tonnes of muck is being removed every day, but the biggest-ever garbage cleaning operation in the state has failed to bring much respite for residents of flood-hit Kurnool. This shows the enormity of the task at hand as the government sets about bringing life to normal …
Oct. 26: The floods that swamped Kurnool last month dumped thousands of tonnes of sand and sludge in streets, drains and lakhs of buildings. Since the city was submerged for several days, the water foodgrain, clothes and anything that was degradable. Every house has generated an estimated 3-5 tonnes of …
Kurnool, Oct. 19: Farmers have not yet recovered from the floods in Kurnool district. Their crops were washed away and sand deposits in the fields are appearing everywhere in the district. According to official records, crops in over 1.70 lakh hectares were damaged in the district. The state government had …
THE state government may have to relocate at least two towns and several villages after the floods deosited two to six feet of silt and lush, rendering the areas unfit for abitation. Alampur in Mahabubnagar disrict, located on the border with urnool, now has six feet of slush, ith the …
Oct. 15: The government officials estimated that floods caused Rs 1,844.64 crores loss in Kurnool district and the loss incurred by private parties has been put at Rs 5,000 crore. The floods ravaged 195 villages of which 58 were completely submerged and 137 villages were partially under water. Sixty municipal …
Oct. 11: Even though it is been a week since the floods receded, many areas in Kurnool are still under knee-deep slush while sanitation personnel have been unsuccessful in clearing tonnes of garbage scattered on the roads here. People complain that the foul smell emanating from the garbage is making …
HYDERABAD: Workers engaged in the operations to remove the thick layer of silt deposited in Kurnool city and elsewhere after the floodwater receded are faced with a peculiar problem as the soil has become very hard. After flood receded, five to 25 feet high silt accumulated in Kurnool. It turned …
New Delhi: The flooding of Kurnool could have been averted had successive state governments in Andhra Pradesh not avoided repeated reminders of the Central Water Commission (CWC) on doubling the spillway capacity of the Srisailam dam. Since 1990, CWC had advised the state government twice to increase the spillway capacity …
Oct. 6: In the most inaccessible area, at the foothills of the Nallamala in Kottapalle mandal of Kurnool district, hundreds were marooned for nearly past five days as the Srisailam backwater had flooded their villages. Villagers had to spend four horrifying nights in the Ankalamma Gattu forest area. This is …
The retreating monsoon claimed 12 more lives as the death toll due to torrential rains and rampaging floods in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh soared to 205 on Sunday even as relief operations were on in full swing in the two states to provide succour to the affected. Karnataka, which reported …
Hyderabad: Kurnool town on Friday night was in the imminent danger of being completely submerged with flood water at some places getting more than 10 feet deep. By Saturday afternoon, the town is likely to be sumberged under as much as 15-20 feet of water, putting into peril the lives …
HYDERABAD: The Krishna river and its two major tributaries in Andhra Pradesh, Tungabhadra and Handri, rose menacingly to a level not seen in 100 years after they received unprecedented quantities of inflows, bringing both Kurnool and the pilgrim centre of Mantralayam under neck-deep water, besides inundating some 100 villages in …
