[Assam] Annual floods!

[Ram Sarangapani]

 >We have been trying to take care albeit in a small scale.

Yes, we have Ankur, and I am glad there is at least some effort to help
people. But all the funds collected, cannot, unfortunately, bring back those
people the state loses to floods, each year.

What I was referring to is what, if any long-term, preventative measures has
the state or center ever taken, and how concerned are the people to take
long-term measures seriously? That is where the *'care*' part comes in. If
we did, why does it happen with such devastation every year? Yes,  the state
does have to learn to live with floods, but the affects, could, I am sure be
minimized.


--Ram





On 8/7/07, Ankur Bora <ankur_bora2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Quote From the reports - 1400 have died and millions displaced. I am not
> sure if we 'collectively' care UnQuote
>
> We have been trying to take care albeit in a small scale.
>
> http://www.children ofdhemaji. ngo.net.in/<http://www.childrenofdhemaji.ngo.net.in/>
>
> Collectively ? it's depend how community respond.
>
> Ankur
> Austin , Texas
>
> *Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>  http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=188179
>
> Like clockwork, the floods are back again with the usual lack of sheer
> helplessness & hand-wringing from every quarter. This year it also looks
> like the floods have come with a vengence.
>
> This is also the first time, one reads in the papers that affected
> people fighting over food (being distributed) - shades of Somalia,
> Bangladesh?
>
> And every year, we ask the same questions:
> Can the flood problem ever be mitigated?
> Will the State officials from the CM all the way to the district level
> flood management officials ever take this yearly phenomenon seriously?
> Why does the Govt. allow people to inhabit flood-prone areas?
> Is there a science to controlling floods?
> Why on earth is the flood situation, "political"
> What happens to funds allocated to the flood situation every year? Is
> there some accountability?
>
> Why are Sonia Gandhi and others visiting the state? Post-mortem?
> But one really can't blame this or that govt. There were floods in Sarat
> Singha's administration, and much, much before that, and predictably there
> will be floods for ever - if the status quo is maintained.
>
> This is a situation, that anyone with half a brain can predict with 100%
> certainity.
> And yet, no govt., no entity, the public, actually no one is ever
> prepared.
> We are totally oblivious.
> It seems very strange, that we seem to be taken by absloute surprise every
> year by floods.
> If it isn't a surprise, why are we never prepared for the floods?
>
> Why do many of us suddenly get serious about floods every year - but
> obviously forget about it later? Possibly in the hopes that it won't happen
> this year.
>
> All this is really depressing. I think, I will go back to the
> hand-wringing, and re-post this post again in time for next year's floods,
> and find some scapegoat or the other to blame for this year's floods! :)
>
> From the reports - 1400 have died and millions displaced. I am not sure if
> we 'collectively' care
>
> --Ram
>
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