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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | This year's floods worst in a decade -Subodh Varma

This year's floods worst in a decade -Subodh Varma

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published Published on Sep 6, 2017   modified Modified on Sep 6, 2017
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: As the monsoon prepares to recede, India faces a mammoth recovery task from the worst floods in a decade.

Over 3.4 crore people across 280 districts have been affected by floods that left more than 1,000 dead. Very preliminary estimates indicate that over 3 lakh hectares of crops, mainly paddy, have been destroyed. Over 8 lakh homes, mostly kachcha units have been damaged or destroyed. An estimated 16,000 schools too have suffered damage.

The vast network of state-run health centres in far-flung rural areas has also suffered extensive damage although concrete numbers are not available.

Records show this year's monsoon floods were the worst since 2007, when 4.1 crore people were affected. The past few days have brought some respite as most rivers in UP, Bihar and West Bengal are now flowing at normal levels and rainfall too has been scattered or isolated, although it continues in Assam and adjoining states.

Flood waters are reportedly receding across the affected swathe but lakhs of people continue to receive food and other essentials from relief camps and community kitchens set up by state governments.

The immediate issue will be preventing the spread of diseases, especially waterborne ones such as diarrhoea, and mosquito-borne ones like dengue, malaria and encephalitis, warn experts. Subsequently, the onerous task of recovery faces the affected people who are mostly dependent on agriculture. The flooding was mainly in UP, Bihar, north Bengal, Odisha and Assam.

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The Times of India, 6 September, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/this-years-floods-worst-in-a-decade/articleshow/60384123.cms


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