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- The India Meteorological Department's Hyderabad centre has placed five northern Telangana districts — Adilabad, Kumaram Bheem Asifabad, Mancherial, Nirmal and Jagtial — under a red alert for very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall on July 30, with more heavy rain forecast for the following day.
- In response, Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy directed officials to take precautionary measures near water bodies, alert people in vulnerable areas, and shift them to rehabilitation centres if needed, while ensuring uninterrupted power, water and traffic flow in rain-hit Hyderabad.
- IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu held an emergency video conference for Peddapalli district, ordering flood relief on a war footing in Godavarikhani, Peddapalli and the Singareni coal belt, where heavy rain over two days has inundated several residential colonies.
What to watch next
- Whether rainfall in the red-alert northern districts matches or exceeds forecasts on July 30-31
- Extent of flooding and relief operations in the Singareni coal belt and Godavarikhani
- Traffic and utility disruptions in Hyderabad as HYDRAA, GHMC and Traffic departments coordinate
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