Kerala Rains continued to batter the state on Thursday. The Cochin International Airports Limited has announced that the Kochi airport will remain shut up to 2 pm on August 26. The city continues to received heavy rains and water level inside the airport is rising. The Air Navigation Services wing of the Airports Authority of India has issued suspended air services till August 26. Officials said, the situation is being constantly reviewed in consultation with the state government.
Incessant rains and landslides claimed another 29 lives with the death toll rising to 115, and counting. Flight operations at the Kochi airport were suspended till Saturday as officials said a red alert had been sounded in all the 14 districts of the state. The public transport system collapsed in many parts of central Kerala with the Southern Railways and Kochi Metro today suspending their operations due to floods. The situation in Kerala continued to deteriorate with rains wrecking havoc in most parts of the state.
As rains continued to batter Idukki, the sluice gates of the damn were also reopened in the wee hours of Wednesday after the water level touched 142 feet mark. Tensions also escalated between Kerala and Tamil Nadu over the increasing water levels in the Mullaperiyar dam.
You can also help Kerala during the tough times by contributing to Chief Minister’s relief fund.
Here are the details:
Name of Donee: CMDRF
Account number: 67319948232
Bank: State Bank of India
Branch: City branch, Thiruvananthapuram
IFSC: SBIN0070028
PAN detail: AAAGD0584M
Mailing address: The Principal Secretary (Finance) Treasurer,
Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund, Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram -1
Anbodu Kochi, a social media collective in association with Ernakulam district administration has been collecting relief materials to send to the camps. Here are the things they require:
Cooking utensils and dining utensils like plates and tumblers
• Rice and other pulses and cereals
• Containers for storing rice, other pulses and cereals
• Mugs and buckets
• Sanitary napkins
• First Aid medicines/kits
• Candles and matchboxes
• Packaged food (no bread or cream biscuits)
The local group does not accept money so people wanting to contribute can send the above-mentioned items to these addresses- Control Room, Collectorate, Kannur – 670002, Phone no. 94466 82300, 04972700645. You can contact the district coordinators by calling on these numbers 9809700000, 9895320567, and 9544811555.
Till now, 14 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed in the affected areas of Idukki, Ernakulam, Palakkad, Alappuzha, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Thrissur and Pathanamthitta districts. One NDRF team consists of about 45 personnel.
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