Overview
- An eight-member Inter-Ministerial Central Team led by Pasumi Basu and K. Ponnuswamy met state officials and began field inspections after arriving on Monday.
- Officials outlined sector-wide damage across 24 districts, with crops on 1.61 lakh acres, horticulture on 6,250 hectares, and fish ponds over 3,063 hectares affected.
- Infrastructure losses include 4,794 km of roads and 311 bridges or culverts damaged, along with 3,437 minor and 2,417 major or medium irrigation structures and impacts to 58 urban local bodies.
- The human toll includes three deaths, 9,960 houses submerged, and 1,11,402 people displaced across 443 mandals after rainfall nearly nine times the seasonal average.
- Relief efforts feature 12 NDRF and 13 SDRF teams, 680 drones for real-time monitoring, 1,702 vehicles and 110 trained swimmers, and 2,471 relief camps sheltering affected residents.