A district-level flood severity index (DFSI) developed by researchers at IIT-Delhi and IIT-Roorkee acknowledged that Bihar’s capital Patna experiences the worst floods in India, adopted by West Bengal’s Murshidabad and Maharashtra’s Thane.
What had been standards of report?
The historic severity of floods based mostly on the variety of affected individuals, the unfold and length of floods had been taken under consideration within the index.
The researchers stated the highest 10 districts the place flood severity is the best are: Patna, Murshidabad, Thane, North 24 Parganas (West Bengal), Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Ballia (Uttar Pradesh), East Champaran (Bihar), and East Medinipur (West Bengal).
These are adopted by Muzaffarnagar (Bihar), Lakhimpur (Assam), Kota (Rajasthan), Aurangabad (Maharashtra), Malda (West Bengal), Rajkot (Gujarat), Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), Aurangabad (Bihar), Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Jalpaiguri (West Bengal), Darjeeling (West Bengal), Dibrugarh (Assam), Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh), Chamoli (Uttarakhand), West Champaran (Bihar), Amravati (Maharashtra), Medinipur West (West Bengal), and Samastipur (Bihar).
Although Chamoli in Uttarakhand doesn’t face recurrent floods, it seems on this listing due to just a few remoted extremely damaging flood occasions.
Among the many 30 districts dealing with the best danger of floods, 17 are within the Ganga basin and three are within the Brahmaputra basin.
Amongst all of the Indian river basins, the Ganga basin has the best inhabitants, and its excessive flood proneness is worrisome, stated the researchers, together with Manabendra Saharia, an assistant professor at IIT-Delhi.
Assam experiences the best variety of floods in India, having confronted greater than 800 flood occasions over 56 years.
The opposite flood-prone states, in descending order of flood occasions, embrace Kerala, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
Information from 1967 to 2023 reveals that Thiruvananthapuram has skilled greater than 231 floods or greater than 4 occasions per 12 months on common.
5 districts — Thiruvananthapuram, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Kamrup, and Nagaon — have been categorised as “severely flood-prone,” having recorded greater than 178 floods, or greater than three occasions per 12 months on common.
The researchers stated localised intense rainfall occasions are more likely to rise sooner or later because of local weather change, and due to this fact, extra flash floods are anticipated. Beneath the warming local weather, the frequency of cyclones will enhance, and coastal and close by inland areas will face extra situations of intense rainfall and floods. Additionally it is possible that areas that aren’t at present flood-prone could start to see flooding.
The researchers stated human fatality because of floods is almost secure or has come down in current occasions because of higher administration regardless of a rise within the inhabitants in India. The variety of deaths is round 1,000 per 12 months since 2015, the information confirmed.
(With PTI inputs)
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