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Floods are there every year in India. During rainy season from July to September, many parts of the country suffer from devastating floods. Flood is one of the major calamities that afflict the country regularly. Floods result in much havoc and vast scale destruction of life and property.

India can very proudly boast of an extensive network of rivers. They are the very life-giving natural gifts of nature, but they turn into things of sorrow and suffering when they are in spate and floods.

In Northern India the Ganga, Yamuna, Brahmaputra, Gomuti, Ganado, Koki, Chamber etc., are the main rivers. They are often in floods during monsoon when there is excess of rains in their catchments areas. The heavy to very heavy rainfall causes them to discharge maximum quantity of water, resulting in frequent floods. Consequently, large parts of many states including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Gujarat are affected by devastating floods.


During floods, minions of people are evacuated from flood-affected areas and temporarily settled in safer places and shelters. They are provided with drinking water, food, medicines, clothes, toilet facilities and such other measures are taken. It involves a huge expenditure which a developing country like India can ill afford. Then there are possibilities of breaking out of epidemics if quick and adequate measures are not taken.

Floods result in breaches of bunds, inundation of river- banks, sweeping away of roads, rail-lines, bridges, collapse of buildings, houses, and wide-spread destruction of standing crops over very large areas. In towns and cities, sewers back flow into streets and houses. Business, traffic, all activity virtually come to a standstill, and there is chaos and destruction all around. The poor and the weaker sections of the society suffer the most in floods. They are deprived of their huts, houses, meager belongings, cattle and crops. In such a situation army troops are pressed into service to help the flood-victims. Other paramilitary forces, too, are deployed to help the authorities in the relief and rescue-operations. Food, medicines and water- packets are then dropped from the helicopters to the marooned people. In spite of these measures, hundreds of people lose their life; still many more people suffer serious injuries. Thus, floods claim many lives and destroy property on a large scale. For example, the recent floods of 1995 have affected millions of people of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal on a very large scale. All the rivers of these states are flowing much higher above their danger marks. And they are still rising and sub-merging large tracts of cultivated land, low lying areas and hundreds of colonies. In the wake of these ravaging floods, now there is a danger of breaking out of epidemics. The quick and proper disposal of corpses and carcasses also become a serious problem during such calamities.

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