rajahmundryvisakhapatnam road connectivity between andhra pradesh and odisha chhattisgarh and telangana were snapped as chinturu mandal is water logged with the sabari overflowing on national highways nos 326 and 30 traffic was stopped and no vehicles were allowed on the two arterial roadsmeanwhile water is receding at bhadrachalam in telangana and the flood water reached the peak of 1640 lakh discharge from sir arthur cotton barrage into the sea irrigation authorities predict that the flood level will fall short of third warning at the barrage and will start to recede by mondayflood water surrounded 26 habitations as five causeways were inundated in konaseema district about 3000 families are affected and the district machinery is providing food to about 3000 families in relief camps talking to toi konaseema district collector himanshu shukla said that apart from the decentralised relief camps centralised camps have also been set up to accommodate more people keeping cattle during flood in mind he said that 460 tonnes of dry grass has been procured in kharif in april he said that distribution of cattle feed has begun in the island village and another 300 tonnes of dry grass has been orderedin alluri sitharama raju district 76 habitations out of 545 habitations in four merged mandals of chinturu vr puram kunavaram and yetapaka were cut offt he connectivity between chinturu and vr mandals mandals has been snapped district collector sumit kumar said that 70 per cent of vr puram mandal has been affected by floods he said 22000 families comprising 50000 people out of 131 lakh population in four merged mandals of the district were affected he said 17000 people have been shifted to relief camps and safer places he added that power has been disrupted in some areas of vr puram and kunavaram mandals in eluru district 45 habitations in agency mandals of kukkunuru and valerupadu were affected district joint collector lavanya veni said that about 14000 people belonging to 4779 families have been badly hit she added that 9166 people were shifted to safer places and 4275 people shifted to 12 rehabilitations camps she added that 9166 people went to their relatives homes or to nearby hilltops so far more than 48000 people were shifted to relief camps from the floodaffected villages in the state said br ambedkar managing director of andhra pradesh state disaster management authority apsdma those staying in the government degree college relief camp at chintoor in asr district complained about the lack of basic facilities we are facing so many problems here officials failed to provide safe drinking water toilets and proper food to the flood victims at the relief camp we have lost crops and cattle what will we do now it is people like us who are suffering they said villagers of kuyuguru under chinturu mandals in asr district staged a jala deeksha on sunday demanding that their village be included in the first contour level and immediate payment of r and r package compensation the villagers including women stood