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Essay on kerala floods and remedies to follow after floods

Answer 1

Kerala has hit the headlines because it was flooded in an epic, possibly unprecedented calamity. Large tracts of low-lying areas, villages and houses were underwater for almost a week in many places. The numbers who perished, according to the Kerala government website, are over 370. More than a million people are displaced. More than 3,000 relief camps were opened. Over 42,000 hectares of crops are destroyed. There were 537 landslides and 221 bridges collapsed.

Preliminary estimates cite a loss of more than 3 billion US dollars (about 20,000 crores in Indian Rupees). Rough surveys reckon over 10,000 km of roads are damaged. The states farmers, around 2.6 lakhs of them, have lost crops, cattle, goats and other livestock.

Answer 2

Beginning on 24 August 2018, severe floodsaffected the south Indian state of Kerala, due to unusually high rainfall during the monsoon season.[4] It was the worst flood in Kerala in nearly a century.[5] Over 483 people died, and 14 are missing.[6] About a million[7][8] people were evacuated, mainly from Chengannur,[9]Pandanad,[10] Edanad, Aranmula, Kozhencherry, Ayiroor, Ranni, Pandalam, Kuttanad, Aluva, and Chalakudy, N.Paravur, Chendamangalam, Eloorand few places in Vypin Island and in few places of Palakkad. All 14 districts of the state were placed on red alert.[11][12] According to the Kerala government, one-sixth of the total population of Kerala had been directly affected by the floods and related incidents.[13] The Indian government had declared it a Level 3 Calamity, or "calamity of a severe nature".[14][15] It is the worst flood in Kerala after the great flood of 99 that took place in 1924.

Kerala Flood 2018