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- Pulapre Balakrishnan Professor of Economics of Ashoka University, talks about the manmade causes of Kerala floods, and suggest measures to bring resilience.
Important Analysis
- Man Made Causes of floods
- Kerala witnessed widespread deforestation, rampant construction and indiscriminate quarrying which has triggered landslides and also obstructed water channels.
- Large scale sand mining
- Improper land use pattern
- Large scale quarrying for tourism sector
- Ignored the importance of wetlands.
- Alienation of agricultural land
- Constructing large building on flood plain leading to blockage of river stream
- Concretization of river plains
- Suggestion
- Land use in the State needs review at the level of the State government.
- Public review of the dams in Kerala and how they are operated, focusing in particular on how their operation may have affected the flooding
- Proper flood-proofing effort need to be the part of government’s protocol.
