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Central team reviews losses in flood-hit Beed district

Pioneer News Service

A central Government team on Wednesday reviewed the losses in Maharashtra’s Beed district due to floods and excess rainfall in September and October, an official said.

SVSP Sharma, a scientist from Indian Space Research Organisation, and Vishal Pande, an executive engineer in the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, carried out the review, the official said.

The visit began at Limba Rui village in Beed tehsil, where the team observed farmlands washed away, crops destroyed, and wells silted up. In Yevalwadi in Shirur Kasar tehsil, a major bridge and road have been washed away.