Incessant rains damage roads in ASR district

Visakhapatnam: Incessant rain in several parts of Alluri Sitarama Raju district has severely affected the road and communication networks in the district. The main road from GK Veedhi to Seeleru, which connects four states including Telangana, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh, is in a very bad state. The severe damage to this interstate road has cut off around 160 villages from the outside world. While incidents of bridge collapse was reported in seven places, landslides were reported in 15 places and engineers estimate that it may take around 10 days to restore vehicular movement on this road.A woman named Sumitra, who got injured in a landslide at Chatrayipalli area in GK Veedhi mandal, had to be treated at Sapparla PHC with temporary bandages due to the lack of equipment and road connectivity to the Chintapalli Area Hospital. ITDA project officer Abhishek stated that apart from the 45-km stretch, most of the main roads are accessible to the public, thanks to the necessary arrangements made by authorities. However, removing boulders on the stretch has become a challenging task due to continuous landslides. The Chintapalli to Narsipatnam road has also been damaged, with the Madigunta causeway getting washed away. Alternative arrangements have been made for the safe passage of vehicles.We also published the following articles recently