<span style="color: #222222;">Telangana state has suffered losses to a tune of Rs. 5000 Crore due to heavy rains and flash floods.<br />''<br />''Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has stated this in a letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<br />''<br />''The Chief Minister has also urged the centre to release 1350 crore rupees immediately for rehabilitation and relief works.<br />''<br />''The damages assessed is based on the initial reports.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the Chief Minister has convened a high level review meeting which is underway currently.<br />''<br />''The Ministers of Municipal Administration, Agriculture, Roads and Buildings, Irrigations are attending the meeting apart from senior officials.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, relief works gained momentum as there is some respite from rains in the state especially in Hyderabad.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports,  people in Hyderabad and elsewhere in the state got respite from heavy rains that battered the city for the past three days.<br />''<br />''However, the flood water has not yet receded from the residential colonies at several places and many places remained inundated.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, relief operations picked momentum and about 44 thousand people are taking shelter in the  relief camps in Hyderabad.<br />''<br />''The authorities have been directed to provide food, water, and blankets to them as the night temperatures dip due to rains.<br />''<br />''Medical teams have been pressed into service especially in the low lying areas and rain affected areas.<br />''<br />''Following release of surplus water from Himayat Sagar upstream, Musi river is flowing dangerously at Moosarambagh, flooding adjacent areas in Hyderabad.<br />''<br />''Army, teams of the National Disaster Management Force and the  Disaster Response Teams  of the GHMC continued rescue and relief works in the flood-hit areas. Lakshmi airnews, Hyderabad.</span>