Heavy rain continues to lash prakasam Ongole, November 13. Heavy rain continued to lash Prakasam district on Thursday, giving an impetus to farm operations. However, normal life was effected in Ongole, Chirala, Kandukur, Kanigiri with majority of roads being inundated.
While most of the private schools declared holiday, government schools recorded thin attendance.
The rain helped to the farmers to take up cultivation of dry crops like blackgram, greengram, cotton etc. People wish that the rains would continue to solve drinking water problem haunting several villages in the district.
Meanwhile, weatherman predicted more rains in the next 48 hours as the low pressure persisted over the Bay of Bengal, off south and north coastal AP .
News Posted: 13 November, 2014
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