<span style="color: #222222;">Karnataka has agreed to release five lakh cusec water from Almatti dam to help ease out the flood situation in Kolhapur and Sangli districts of Maharashtra. This was announced by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today. He was speaking with media persons in Kolhapur after an aerial survey of flood-affected area in Sangali, Satara and Kolhapur districts.<br />''</span><br />''Mr. Fadnavis said that release of water from Almatti will help to bring down the water level in the flood-affected areas in Sangali and Kolhapur. Mr. Fadnavis further said that he had a talk with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and he has assured all help from the Centre to tackle flood situation in Maharashtra. Centre is closely monitoring the situation, he added.<br />''<br />''Chief Minister assured that Maharashtra Government will provide all possible help to the flood-affected people. After aerial survey of Sangali and Kolhapur he visited flood-affected area of Kolhapur. He also attended review meeting in Kolhapur and gave instructions to the officials to work on war footing. <br />''   <br />''Altogether 22 rescue teams of NDRF, Navy, Coast Guard, Army and SDRF are working in Kolhapur. In Sangli, 11 teams have been deployed. Five more NDRF teams reached Pune, of which two teams are on way to Kolhapur and two to Sangli to assist the local administration in rescue operations.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">More than 1 Lakh 40 Thousand people have been evacuated till now. During rescue operation today one Boat overturned today near Brahmanal in Sangali. Around 30 people were being rescued by this ill-fated Boat NDRF team subsided in saving life of 16 14 dead bodies have been recovered from river water taking death toll of floods to 30.</span><br />