Major Indian cities lack long-term plans to deal with flash floods - Cosmetic change is not going to make India a superpower

Indian cities are the worst hit by flood, thanks to the lack of a long-term urban planning and ostrich like response by the policymakers and administration.


  • And, although it always rains in India for about three months, we dont have a long-term planning to deal with it, except re-naming our cities.

  • Flood created similar scene in Beijing, London, Paris and even in American cities.

  • Even in the United States, cities keep flooding as a State of Emergency was declared by the mayor of Huntington,West Virginia, after the city was hit by flash flooding after storms and heavy rain late on 14 July, 2016.

  • China is in a no better condition either as its very capital, Beijing was hit by a twenty-hour downpour on July 21, 2012, and within a day of the flooding, 56,933 people had been evacuated, while the floodwaters killed 79 people, causing at least 10 billion Yuan (US $1.6 billion) in damages and destroying at least 8,200 homes.


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