Dr Jyoti Sharma
Senior Academic consultant
MAHIAA ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANCY SERVICES DELHI
A disaster of this magnitude needs huge contribution centre has offered Rs 600 crore as interim disaster relief and state govt. and ordinary citizens are also contributing . 11 out of 14 districts of Kerala are being affected.
Kerala resembles a continuous stretch of urban destiny and construction right upto waterfronts.
after these floods and cyclone Kerala must pay closer attraction to long and short term rain forecast , disaster dam management and flood plain and western ghats zoning .
The death toll in the current spell of monsoon fury that region on 8th august has risen to 216 official said " keeping in the view the intensity and magnitude of the flood and land slides in Kerala , this is a calamity of a severe nature for all practical purposes"
a home ministry official said in New Delhi Kerala is staring at its most flooding in living memory . with too much rainfall for 2 weeks and coming on the heels of surplus monsoon since june all rivers went into spate forcing open the sluice gates of 34 dams . august 9 and 15th august and 17th august , the departure from normal was a whopping 424 %
Roads and bridges have been mashed away and thousand of houses , govt offices and farms submerged . over 7 lakh people were shifted to 3500 relief camps . Kerala govt preliminary assessment of losses is fagged at 19000 Crores
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