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GUNTUR: Agriculture minister Prattipati Pulla Rao on Tuesday said that the office of the agriculture commissioner will be shifted to the agriculture market committee complex (old chilli yard) in Guntur. Earlier, Pulla Rao inspected the old chilli yard. He told reporters that all state-level offices of the agriculture department, including the offices of the director and the commissioner, will soon function from Guntur. The municipal administration department will also be shifted to the chilli yard. The municipal department will oversee the construction of the state capital. He said that about 30,000 sq yards of space is available in the market yard complex. The minister claimed that farmers are happy with the compensation package announced by the state government under the land pooling scheme. "The process is on as per target. It will be completed soon," he added.

People trying to cross the Amaravathi-Tadikonda Road, while flood waters in Peekalavagu flows over the causeway on the road snapping communication in Guntur district on Friday. Five persons were killed in separate incidents since Thursday morning as heavy rains continued to batter the district. People living in low lying areas heaved a sigh of relief as the floodwaters receded in most areas. Road link to Amaravathi remained cut off as floodwaters inundated several low lying causeways on the Guntur-Amaravathi Road. Joint Collector Vivek Yadav said two persons -- Mulpuri Srinivasa Rao (35) and Velagala Seethamahalakshmi (55) -- died in separate incidents while the identity of a woman who was washed away at Lam village was yet to be established. Srinivasa Rao, who hailed from Ravela village in Tadikonda mandal, drowned in the Yarra Vagu in Kantheru village while Seethamahalakshmi died of electrocution at Atchampet. Two persons were feared washed away in a swollen rivulet after b...