Four more bodies recovered, flood toll climbs to 58 in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Aug 14: With the recovery of four bodies in Hassan district, the toll in the devastating floods and incessant rains in parts of Karnataka has gone up to 58, authorities said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, with inflows into the reservoirs steadily decreasing, the situation in the affected districts in north, coastal, malnad and south interior Karnataka has improved further.
According to an official update, senior officers camping in the districts are overseeing relief operations, which are in full swing.
"Damaged roads are being restored on war-footing for movement of men and materials", it said.
Joint rescue teams comprising personnel from State Disaster Response Force, National Disaster Response Force and Army have evacuated nearly 6.98 lakh people as on today, the official note said.
As many as 1,160 relief camps are operational, where clean drinking water, food and other relief materials are being provided to nearly four lakh people housed in them.
According to the government, 103 taluks in 22 districts have been affected by floods and incessant rains in the past few days, resulting in loss of agriculture and horticulture crops on 4.58 lakh hectares and damaging 56,381 houses.
"There is extensive damage to critical infrastructure such as roads, tanks, pipelines, schools and electrical infrastructure etc. Damage assessment is in progress", it said.
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Tamil Nadu's Governor transferred as WB Governor in late-night reshuffle of governors by Prez Murmu
New Delhi (PTI): Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi has been appointed West Bengal Governor and Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) named new Bihar Governor as part of major gubernatorial appointments effected by President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday night.
Ravi succeeds C V Ananda Bose, who resigned earlier in the day.
President Murmu has accepted Bose's resignation, a communique issued by her office said.
Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar will discharge the functions of Governor of Tamil Nadu, it said.
Vinai Kumar Saxena, Lt Governor of Delhi, has been appointed as Ladakh's LG in place of Kavinder Gupta, who has been named Himachal Pradesh Governor.
Taranjit Singh Sandhu has been named Delhi LG, the communique said.
Himachal Pradesh Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla has been made Telangana Governor in place of Jishnu Dev Varma, who has been appointed Maharashtra Governor.
Nand Kishore Yadav has been appointed as Nagaland Governor, the communique said.
