Minister visits flooded colonies in Mahabubnagar
The Hindu
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Several low lying areas in Mahabubnagar town, including Ramaiah Bowli, B.K. Reddy Colony, Shivashakti Nagar, Christianpalli, One Town, Two Town, Laxmi Nagar Colony, Srinivasa Colony and others, were flooded following heavy rain after midnight on Saturday (early hours of Sunday). Minister for Excise V. Srinivas Goud, who was camping in Mahabubnagar, visited the flooded colonies on a bike after getting a distress call from Shivashakti Nagar Councillor’s family around 3.50 a.m., as his car driver was not available. The Minister and a couple of his personal staff went round the areas before the district officers joined them.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.