Overview

• District teams are documenting losses after heavy monsoon rains, with officials reporting 66,906 hectares of crops damaged, 94 houses hit and broad infrastructure impacts across roads, bridges and schools, and no human or animal casualties so far.
• Minister Eshwar B. Khandre ordered immediate crop-loss surveys and directed officials to ensure prompt compensation through crop insurance companies.
• Bus services were halted in Aurad, Kamalnagar and Bhalki taluks, and the minister told engineers to restore connectivity at once by making temporary fixes now and scheduling permanent road repairs for October.
• He instructed education and health departments to drain waterlogged campuses, repair or rebuild unsafe school and anganwadi buildings with clear accountability for BEOs and the DDPI, and step up disease-control checks while fixing weak ANM centres and hospitals.
• The Karanja reservoir was confirmed full with 10,000 cusecs inflow and 13,000 cusecs release under safety protocols, and the administration was told to marshal SDRF/NDRF funds for relief and permanent works as a JD(S) leader urged a minimum ₹25,000-per-acre compensation.