Nature has wreaked such havoc in Kerala’s hilly district Wayanad that 143 people have died in the landslide here. More than 90 people are reported missing. This disaster has reopened the wounds of Kerala, which has been scared of natural disasters many times.
First of all, let’s talk about the floods that occurred in Kerala in August 2018. 483 people died in this natural disaster in Kerala, which was called the ‘flood of the century’ of the state. This devastating disaster not only took lives of people, but also destroyed property and livelihoods.
Its impact was so great that the central government declared the 2018 floods as ‘Disaster of Serious Nature’. After this accident, more than 14.50 lakh people from 3.91 lakh families were rehabilitated in relief camps. A total of 57,000 hectares of agricultural crops were destroyed. The pictures of airlifting pregnant women by Indian Air Force helicopters in 2018 are still fresh in the memory of the people of Kerala. Questions were also raised on the need for eco-friendly construction during the reconstruction of Kerala devastated by the 2018 floods.
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According to the Kerala government, one-sixth of the state’s total population was directly affected by floods and related incidents. While the state was slowly getting back on its feet after the devastating floods of 2018, another disaster struck in 2019, when a landslide occurred in Puthumala in Wayanad, about 10 km from the currently affected areas, killing 17 people.
According to PTI, in October 2021, incessant rains again triggered landslides, killing 35 people in the state’s Idukki and Kottayam districts. According to data shared by the India Meteorological Department, heavy rains and flood-related incidents claimed 53 lives in Kerala in 2021.
Exactly a year later, in August 2022, heavy rains triggered landslides and flash floods in the state, killing 18 people, damaging hundreds of properties and displacing thousands of people in relief camps, according to the state government.
More than 5,000 people were shifted to 178 relief camps from disaster-affected and disaster-prone areas of the state in rain-related incidents of 2022. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, out of the 3,782 landslides that occurred in the country between 2015 and 2022, the highest number of 2,239 landslides were recorded in Kerala.