The Indian Air Force transported over 200 rescue personnel and 30 tonnes of emergency relief supplies to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At least 25 people have died from heavy rains and floods in southern India, authorities said, while thousands have been rescued and taken to relief camps.
At least 16 people have died in Telangana state and nine in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in the past two days.
“Many houses have also been damaged,” Telangana disaster response and fire services chief Y Nagi Reddy told AFP on Monday, adding that 400 millimetres (16 inches) of rain had fallen in the past 24 hours.
The Telangana state government has also urged the Indian federal government to declare the floods a “national disaster”, according to local media reports.
“The (Telangana) government will submit a comprehensive report on the flood damage to the central government. We will write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the flood-affected areas in the state and urge the central government to declare the floods in Telangana a national disaster,” a government statement said.
So far, about 3,800 people have been rescued and shifted to relief camps in Telangana.
On Monday, the Indian Air Force said it had deployed more than 200 rescue workers and 30 tonnes of emergency relief supplies to the two states.
While rains cause widespread destruction each year, experts say climate change is altering weather patterns and increasing extreme weather events.
Last week, at least 28 people were killed in three days in the western state of Gujarat. Officials said schools were closed in parts of Kutch district as heavy rains lashed the area.
“Heavy rains over the past few days have caused severe waterlogging in several places in Kachchh district. We have evacuated people from coastal areas and shifted them to schools and other facilities,” Amit Arora, Kachchh district collector, told Reuters on Friday.
The India Meteorological Department said a deep low pressure area has formed over the land and will gradually move northwestward across the Arabian Sea, bringing heavy rains.
“Cyclones usually form over the ocean and then move over land. This type of system is unusual because it formed over land and is now moving over the ocean,” Ashok Kumar Das, director of the India Meteorological Department in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, told Reuters.
Last month, floods and landslides killed more than 20 people in the northeastern state of Tripura.
Bangladesh, a neighboring country downstream from India, also suffered deadly floods in August, killing at least 40 people and forcing some 300,000 people to seek refuge in emergency shelters.
