Vijayawada, Sep 25 (Reporter) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday said that flood relief for those who suffered heavy losses in the recent cyclone is distributed to the victims in a record time of just 15 days. Maintaining that the State has suffered a total loss of Rs 7,600 cr due to the recent cyclonic storm, the Chief Minister also handed over the formal letters to the flood victims on the relief distributed to them at the district collectorate in Vijayawada. Later, Mr Chandrababu told media persons that besides to those who suffered losses in Budameru floods, relief also is credited to the personal accounts of other affected persons amounting a total of Rs 602 cr. Chandrababu felt that the relief paid to the flood victims is perhaps the highest in the country and those flood victims who have not received the compensation on Wednesday will be paid the relief latest by September 30. "We will see to it that the last victim of these floods should receive the amount, as promised," he said and stated that the list of the affected is prepared in the most transparent way which was displayed at all the village secretariats. Observing that the relief is directly credited to the accounts of the victims, Chandrababu felt that this a calamity that he never experienced in his life as 42 cms rain was recorded in certain areas. The Budameru too experienced record flash floods and the sins committed by the previous government have become a curse to the State, he remarked. Chandrababu pointed out that the previous TDP regime had released Rs 57 cr for modernisation of the Budameru, the YSRCP government totally ignored it and abandoned these works with political discrimination. He also said that the Prakasam Barrage too received a record inflow of 11.43 lakh cusecs which has the capacity of only 10.9 lakh cusecs. Recalling that he camped at Singh Nagar along with the District Collector on learning about the situation, he said that he was very much pained on watching the ground reality. Each affected district was released Rs 3 cr to take up emergency works and directed the officials to spend the amount immediately for taking up relief works without waiting for any kind of orders. "Overnight we got six NDRF teams, 100 power boats and helicopters after talking to the Centre. Also we have pressed into service 120 boats and 150 drones," the Chief Minister said. He said four or five times he had personally visited the areas which were affected very badly and were facing a threat. Thousands of people had taken part in the relief operation while drinking water bottles and food packages too were distributed ontime. The Chief Minister said that a record amount of donations of Rs 400 cr are received for the Chief Minister's Relief Fund (CMRF) and stated that it is really inspiring that the donors have come forward with humanity. "Even children donated their saving amounts and I thank all of them profusely," he remarked. Stating that 17,000 applications have been received in the past two days of which 4,000 are found to be duplicate, the Chief Minister said that the remaining 14,000 applications will be cleared after examining thoroughly. The eligible will certainly get the relief and the reasons will be explained to those who have not received it, he added. Mr Chandrababu said that it has become a habit for some persons to cause destruction and pass the blame onto others. "It is our primary duty to safeguard the lives of the people and maintain law and order. We will not tolerate if anyone tries to cause any kind of hurdles to this," the Chief Minister noted...////...