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Account for the growing frequency and intensity of floods in India, and suggest short- and long-term remedial measures indicating the chronically flood-prone areas.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Contemporary Issues

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The rainfall regime has changed shape, not size. Work led by Roxy Mathew Koll, with Subimal Ghosh, Milind Mujumdar and Raghu Murtugudde, found a threefold rise in widespread extreme rain events over central India between 1950 and 2015 (2017) even as seasonal totals fell: the same water in fewer, fiercer spells.

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  • Why floods are growing more frequent and more intense
  • The settled figure against the current evidence
  • Short-term remedial measures
  • Long-term remedial measures
  • Chronically flood-prone areas
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