In August 2018, the south Indian state of Kerala faced the worst floods due to incessant rainfall, during the monsoon season. In those inundating and horrifying floods, the loss of over 480 people was reported with over 140 missing. Over a million people were evacuated to safe locations, in and around the affected districts, with all facilities, to tide over the calamitous situation. All fourteen districts were placed under red alert and it was estimated that over one sixth of the total population of the state was directly affected by the floods and related incidents. It was the great calamitous and worst floods after 1924 deluge that engulfed the state’s economy badly. Thirty five out of fifty four dams in the state were opened for the first time in the history of the state.
The fury of the nature was not satisfied with the calamitous situation generated by the earlier...