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Floods are the most common natural disaster in India. The heavy southwest monsoon rains cause the Brahmaputra and other rivers to distend their banks, often flooding surrounding areas. Though they provide rice paddy farmers with a largely dependable source of natural irrigation and fertilisation, the floods can kill thousands and displace millions.
After concerns over reoccurring landslides in the state of Kerala, Justices A. K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and V. M. Syam Kumar of Kerala High Court asked the court's registrar general to register a suo moto case to consider steps that can be put in place to prevent and manage natural disasters that may arise in the state in the future. [327]
Natural disaster deaths in India (1 P) E. Earthquakes in India (5 C, 43 P) F. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
The final episode of the 1984 series The Jewel in the Crown contains extracts of the speech.; The speech is referenced in the 1998 Hindi film Earth directed by Deepa Mehta.The film portrays the main characters listening to the speech over the radio, against the backdrop of the Hindu-Muslim riots following the Partition of India.
On 17 October 1960, the 1960 Lucknow flood was a natural disaster that occurred in the city of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India, in October 1960. It was caused by the overflow of the Gomti River, a tributary of the Ganges River, after heavy rainfall in the Himalayan region. The flood submerged almost half of the city under several ...
On 1 June 2016, Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, launched the Disaster Management Plan of India, which seeks to provide a frame work and direction to government agencies for prevention, mitigation and management of disasters. This is the first plan nationally since the enactment of the Disaster Management Act of 2005.
2013 Northern Indian Floods NASA satellite imagery of Northern India on 17 June, showing rainclouds that led to the disaster Location Uttarakhand Himachal Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Nepal Sudurpashchim Pradesh Karnali Pradesh Some parts of Tibet Deaths 6,054 Property damage 4,550 villages were affected In June 2013, a mid-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused ...
In June 2021, the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' published a study that confirmed a large rock and ice avalanche as the cause of the disaster. [4] The result was based on data from earth observation satellites, as well as seismic records, numerical model results, and eyewitness videos.