Question

Classify the flood plains in India with examples.

Answer 1

ANSWER

India receives an annual rainfall of 400 million hectare metres, of which 75 per cent is received in four months. Floods generally follow, bringing devastation with them. As death tolls mount, damage reaches unimaginable scales. In the last four decades the country has lost about Rs 9,720 million in damages to crop, public utilities and houses. The price of human death for each individual remains incalculable. Nearly 40 million hectare of land is vulnerable to floods, with about eight million hectares flooded annually. Ecological degradation caused by humans adds to the problem resulting from erosion, poor natural drainage, among other things.

Answer 2

They are classified as high, medium and low energy cohesive wetlands.

Explanation:

• A flood plain is the area were the land adjacent to the rivers or the stream stretches from the banks of its channels to the base of the enclosing valleys.  

• At the period of the large flow of water, the soil is usually clayed and deposits of the silt and sand are usually found on the floor.

• Indi gets about 400 million hectares of rains from which about 75% is received in four months.  

• These flood plains are also called as the wetlands of India and are characterized by the rivers, like Ganga and the Brahmaputra that occurs along the middle and the lower stretches of the eastern and the northern parts of the country.

• Most of them are the tributaries of the Ganga and form the wetlands of the West Bengal, U.P, and Bihar. Similar to the rivers of Barak and the Brahmaputra in Assam support the wetlands of the Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura.

• Flood plains cover about 42,000 ha area of west Bengal i,e 22% of the total freshwater. About 40,000 in Bihar and Assam has 1392 wetlands and the rest with the northeastern states.

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