Since God has blessed India with the Himalayas, for which it is one of the wettest countries in the world, but its irony is: due to massive deforestation and denudation, it is quite helpless to withhold a huge amount of monsoon water, which disappears into the sea annually as surface run-off.
While many parts of the country suffer from acute water shortage, drought and famine, yet India is counted as one of the most flood-prone countries in the world. If there is adequate rainfall in any given year, then between 300 and 400 million people are normally affected by floods, though a huge amount of money is fruitlessly spent by the irrigation department every year to contain floods by adopting temporary measures. This is because no permanent solution has ever been contemplated by any government either at the centre or at the state level.
According to the global statistics, over 70 per cent of all flood victims live in India and Bangladesh. The erstwhile Planning Commission has ...
Source: Sikkim Express
