Chennai is facing the biggest flood of the century now. All roads have converted into canals, houses are converting into ponds and ponds are becoming over flooded pools. So many people have lost their life, many people are still missing, many are relocated. Totally mess up in the area. And top of that, no news of such mess from rural area of Tamilnandu.
We all are know what happened there. But dont know, how it happened?? why it happened? who is responsible for such massive disaster??
India is facing regular disaster since many years. 2012 Uttarkashi Flood, 2013 Kedarnath Flood, 2014, Kashmir Flood, 2015 Chennai Flood. All disasters has a common issue - ISSUE IN WATER RELEASE CHANNELS!
What happened in Kedarnath! Excessive rain fall happened and rive Mandakini could not absorb the entire water into its existing river bed because of the encroachment on its river bed. Similar thing happened in Kashmir where river Jhelam was encroached for so called development and water could not get way to get release. The same kind of thing happened in Chennai. The excessive rain fall converted into huge water which could not get release due to encroachment into various ponds, Adyar river. And water entered into the town.
We have played a lot with our water bodies in every part of country. See the situation of River Bindaal and Rispana in Dehradun, River Sonali in Roorkee, Hindon in Ghaziabad,Yamuna in Delhi/Noida etc. List is so long. You can find the river bed of any river in any part of the country. You will find such rivers every where. Even small ponds in small towns, villages are washing away on regular basis. See their diameters now and check 50 years ago's too. Every where the situation is same.
We need to see where our development goals are carrying us? Where we want to see ourselves 50 years down the lines from now? Will be comfortable to use MNC's agenda of air purifier, water purifier (already using), tension purifier etc or we want to live natural organic life?? These are the regular Wake Up Calls from Nature. This is the high time to introspect ourselves. Otherwise be ready to face more Chennai, Mumbai, Kashmir, Kedarnath in your own town.
Well written Ritesh. Unfortunately our people don't have the time to understand these issues and act accordingly. What happened after Mumbai floods - more encroachment on water bodies. Disasters will come and go. In a country where loss of lives don't matter, do you expect people to be concerned about environment? Chennai will also follow Mumbai. Delhi might be next. Sorry for sounding pessimistic, but that's the way of life in India.
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