CHENNAI, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Volunteers waded by stagnant water handy out meals and provides, and a few manufacturing crops remained shut in India’s southern tech-and-auto hub district of Chennai on Friday, 4 days after cyclone Michaung lashed the coast.

At least 14 individuals, most of them in Chennai and its state of Tamil Nadu, have died within the flooding, triggered by torrential rains that began on Monday.

The cyclone itself made landfall additional north in Andhra Pradesh state on Tuesday afternoon.

Authorities mentioned some low-lying areas of the state have been nonetheless inundated and authorities officers and volunteers have been taking provides to individuals caught of their properties in slums and different areas.

The bigger Chennai space is dwelling to the Indian models of a number of world companies together with Hyundai Motor (005380.KS), Daimler and Apple’s (AAPL.O) Taiwanese suppliers Foxconn (2317.TW) and Pegatron (4938.TW).

While lots of them together with Pegatron and Foxconn resumed operations inside a day or two of the cyclone making landfall, some crops of the TVS group situated within the worst-affected areas are but to open, business sources mentioned.

Information know-how (IT) companies suppliers within the metropolis introduced work-from-home insurance policies for the week, whereas colleges and schools closed. A number of colleges and schools have been transformed into short-term shelters.

This week’s floods in Chennai introduced again reminiscences of the intensive injury brought on by floods eight years in the past which killed round 290 individuals.

In Andhra Pradesh, the injury from the cyclone was comparatively contained, with roads broken and bushes uprooted as massive waves crashed into the coast.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited Chennai on Thursday and introduced New Delhi will launch a second instalment of 4.5 billion rupees ($54 million) to Tamil Nadu to assist handle the injury. The federal authorities has additionally authorized a 5.6 billion-rupee undertaking for flood administration in Chennai, he mentioned.

Chennai residents questioned the flexibility of the town’s infrastructure to deal with excessive climate.

“Not only has urbanisation itself caused a problem, but the nature of the urbanisation has preyed upon open spaces, holding areas like marshlands and flood plains,” social activist Nityanand Jayaraman mentioned.

Experts have, nevertheless, mentioned higher stormwater drainage programs wouldn’t have been capable of forestall the flooding brought on by very heavy and very heavy rains.

“This solution would have helped a lot in moderate and heavy rainfall, but not in very heavy and extremely heavy rains,” Raj Bhagat P, a civil engineer and geo-analytics professional, mentioned on Wednesday.

($1 = 83.3720 Indian rupees)

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