Flood plains of India
Floods are not avoidable, but the damage they cause are. Only if the cause is understood and precautions taken
• Much of the problem of floods is due to drainage congestion.
• On occasions floods are caused by mismanagement of water reservoirs
• Despite 157 flood forecasting stations in India, the country still loses hundreds of lives and crores worth of property.
Flood of misery | |
The average loss over the past four decades shows the havocfloods wreak | |
| Items | |
| Land area affected | 7.56 million hectare |
| Population affected | 32.03 million |
| Human lives lost | 1,504 |
| Livestock lost | 96,713 |
| Houses damaged | 11,683 |
| Houses damaged(cost) | Rs 136.615 crore |
| Crop damaged | Rs 460.07 crore |
| Public utilities damaged | Rs 377.248 crore |
| TOTAL LOSSES | Rs 982.126 crore |
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