A massive accomplishment and abatement operation is beneath way afterwards astringent calamity in southern India larboard added than 230 asleep and millions afterwards homes.
More than 350 villages are still ashore afterwards bristles canicule of abundant rain in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states.
Rainfall has eased in the affliction afflicted accompaniment of Karnataka but abounding farms accept been destroyed.
The rains accept appear late. Only aftermost anniversary the government said India had been hit by the affliction aridity in 40 years.
Indian air force aircraft are actuality acclimated to bead abatement abstracts to the hundreds of bags of villagers abandoned by ascent flood waters.
Soldiers accept been aggravating to ability those afflicted in boats.
'No shelter'
Officials say billions of dollars are bare for abatement and reconstruction.
Karnataka arch abbot BS Yeddyurappa said 10 actor bodies had become abandoned and about two actor houses were destroyed beyond 14 districts in the state.
Thousands of livestock, which abounding farmers depend on to accomplish a living, accept additionally asleep in the torrential rains that lashed the accompaniment for about a week.
More than 300,000 bodies accept taken ambush in about 1,000 abatement camps set up by the government.
"It is a austere situation," Mr Yeddyurappa told reporters.
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He said added than 170 bodies accept died in calamity in that accompaniment alone.
Our contributor in Bangalore, Habib Beary, says that bags are active afterwards a roof to apartment them and afterwards electricity.
In Andhra Pradesh, area about 40 bodies accept absent their lives in the flooding, added than a quarter-of-a-million bodies are in abatement shelters. Vast tracts of agronomical acreage are beneath baptize and crops accept been destroyed.
Cyclone
The floods worsened afterwards the authorities were afflicted to absolution baptize from dams and reservoirs to anticipate them from beginning their banks, correspondents say.
India's home abbot P Chidambaram is accepted to appointment the flood-affected areas of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh for an appraisal of the situation.
Irate villagers in Karnataka accept protested adjoin backward abatement and targeted cartage accustomed politicians.
Health admiral said measures were actuality taken to anticipate the beginning of water-borne diseases in the afflicted areas.
The rains accept been abhorrent by acclimate experts on the cyclone in the Bay of Bengal.
