As many as 543 medical camps have also been set up, and so far, 14,297 people have been treated.
The death toll due to heavy rains that lashed several parts of Andhra Pradesh in the last 6 days, touched 42 on Sunday.
Guntur district has had the highest casualties with 8 deaths due to incidents of wall collapse, followed by Nalgonda (7), Prakasam (6), Mahabubnagar (4), Hyderabad (3), Kurnool (3), Vizianagaram (3), Chittoor (3), West Godavari (3) and Warangal (2).
As many as 5 people have been reported missing, with 2 each in Visakhapatnam and Krishna, and 1 in Karimnagar district.
The state government has estimated that the total losses due to heavy rains to be around Rs 1,727 crore.
Prakasam district's loss is the highest with Rs. 596crore followed by Warangal (Rs. 411crore), Guntur (Rs. 271crore), Nalgonda (Rs. 250crore), Mahabubnagar (Rs. 142crore), West Godavari (Rs. 37crore) and Medak (Rs. 20 crore).
A total of 4,190 villages in 521 mandals of 16 districts have been affected due to the continuous rains.
West Godavari, Srikakulam, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Prakasam and Vizianagaram are the worst affected districts.
A total of 21,682 houses were also damaged due to heavy rains across the state.
The authorities have so far evacuated 84,769 people in 9 districts to safer places. People from Srikakulam (45,000), Guntur (14,053), Prakasam (8,946), East Godavari (10,866), Visakhapatnam (2,375), Nalgonda (1,820), Vizianagaram (710), Krishna (401) and Nellore (50) have been shifted to 225 relief camps set by the government.
As many as 543 medical camps have also been set up, and so far, 14,297 people have been treated. A total of 580 medical teams and 508 medical officers have also been deployed along with 3,311 para-medical personnel in the affected districts.
Crops spread across 7.99 lakh hectares have also been damaged due to the rains. Fields of Cotton (4.07 lakh Ha), Paddy (3.48 lakh Ha), Maize (0.14 lakh Ha), Groundnut (0.09 Lakh Ha), Sugarcane (0.03 Lakh Ha), Tobacco (0.04 Lakh Ha), Blackgram (0.03 Lakh Ha) and Redgram (0.06 lakh Ha) have been destroyed.
Hotriculture crops of over 32,673 hectares have also been damaged.
As many as 1668 cattle have also died due to rains and flooding.
A total of 19 NDRF teams have been pressed into service for the relief and rescue operations. While 5 teams have been deployed in Visakhapatnam, 4 teams are working in the Srikakulam ditrict, 3 in Guntur, 2 each in Prakasam and West Godavari, and 1 each in Nalgonda, Mahabubnagar and Krishna districts.
As many as 1020 minor irrigation tanks have breached across the state in the last 5-6 days. Also, roads have been damaged in several districts, bringing tarnsport to a halt.
The entire administration has remained on alert following a warning by the Met Department. "Moderate to rather heavy rain or thundershowers would occur at most places over coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and at many places over Rayalaseema," the Meteorology Department said.
"Heavy to very heavy rain would occur at a few places in the districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna and Guntur of the coastal Andhra, and in the districts of Karimanagar, Warangal, Khammam, Nalgonda, Mahaboobnagar, Rangareddy and Hyderabad of the Telangana region during the next 48 hours," the Meteorology Department's latest weather bulletin specified. (INN)