Strengthening of Penna River flood wall important: Nellore MP, MLA inform Amit Shah

Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy and Kovur MLA Vemireddy Prashanthi Reddy met Union House Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi, requesting the modernization of flood partitions in Vidavalur and Indukurpeta mandals to guard paddy fields within the SPSR Nellore district from seasonal floods within the Penna river.

With the frequent floods breaching the banks of the Penna River, affected farmers have been elevating a hue and cry, demanding a long-lasting resolution.

The leaders introduced the necessity to fortify the present partitions and to type new bunds wherever essential to stop the raging river from gushing into the adjoining fields through the monsoon season, thereby eliminating the potential of flooding and stopping avoidable harm to the crops.

It might be recalled that the discharge of extra water from the Somasila reservoir into the Penna River in November 2021 resulted within the flooding of a number of villages within the Kovur constituency, pushing Buchireddypalem, Vidavalur, Kovur, and Indukurpeta mandals in knee-deep water and bringing life to a standstill for a number of days.

Recalling the nightmare suffered in her constituency previously, Ms. Prashanthi Reddy harassed the pressing must ‘floodproof’ the neighborhood of the river.

Equally, Mr. Prabhakar Reddy identified that the traditional Gandhi Ashram at Pallipadu, a memorial constructed on the banks of river Penna to commemorate the go to of Mahatma Gandhi to this little village as a part of his Satyagraha motion, suffered a large-scalebreach in as much as 7.5 acres.

“The Ashram, which is hailed because the ‘Sabarmati of the South’, faces a battle for existence in the present day,” the MP defined to the House Minister, interesting for a retaining wall from the Ashram to Pallipadu village at an outlay of ₹167 crore.

The leaders additionally requested the middle for forming the flood wall at a value of ₹69 crore in Indukurpeta Mandal and one other in Vidavalur Mandal at a value of ₹95 crore.

Mr. Shah has reportedly assured the duo to take up the mentioned works below the Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority.