Vijay deputes Ministers to rain hit areas, reviews arrangements, flights disrupted

Chennai, Oct 18 (UNI) As extremely heavy rains pounded Chennai, suburbs and North coastal districts, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay on Sunday deputed Ministers to oversee relief works in rain-hit and water stagnated areas and later reviewed arrangements put in place at the master control room with the officials, even as arrival and departure of more than 20 flights were affected as the showers were accompanied by thunderstorm and lightning. As the Met office has issued a Red Alert for Chennai, four teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from Arakkonam and four companies of State Disaster Response Force (SDRF)…