Along with this, celebrities like Sharh Rukh Khan, Jacqueline Fernandes, Surya, Siddharth, Kamal Hasan and others have donated generously for the relief and rehabilitation fo the state. No red alert was issued for any of Kerala’s rain-ravaged 14 districts.
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Train services resume The train services in Kayankulam-Kottayam-Ernakulam and Palakkad-Shoranur-Kozhikkode sections have been resumed.
Tuesday, Aug 14, saw the first commercial flight landing on the Cochin International Airport airstrip after two weeks of slow-down and shut down of air traffic.
On 20 August, the Centre declared the devastating floods in Kerala a “calamity of severe nature” as the state braced for the very big task of reconstructing the destroyed infrastructure and rehabilitating lakhs of people rendered homeless. Rescuers fear the death toll will rise as they reach areas nearly entirely underwater.Thousands remain trapped – often without food or water – in towns and villages cut off by the floods, and heavy rain forecast in coming days threatens to compound the disaster.
Suri said the UAE authorities, including the Central Bank, have given the clearance for sending money directly to the Kerala Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund (CMDRF), which Suri said was the best way to help the flood victims.
Six more bodies were found Monday, he added, taking the death toll to more than 410 since the monsoon started in June.
Hindustan Times reported Vijayan as saying that 90% of the rescue is over.
A breakfast meal is placed next to a mobile phone by a man who has left his flood affected home and taken shelter at a relief camp set up inside a government run school in Alappuzha in the southern state of Kerala, India, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. “Every department has been asked to make a plan for this”, he said.
Kerala’s health Minister KK Shailaja said that their priority at the moment is health and sanitation.
The death toll has climbed to 341 since the monsoon started in June, including 191 since August 8, the state’s disaster management control room said by phone, while the number of evacuees at relief camps is growing. It wreaked havoc on coastal and townships of Kerala with continuous pounding day in and day out, as most of the stations recorded well over 200 mm rainfall daily. Rescue teams, including military personnel, have stepped up efforts to evacuate thousands of people trapped by the waters.
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Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, as authorities rushed to bring drinking water to the most affected areas, officials said Sunday. “There’ll be no electricity in homes”. “We need to ensure there’s no major outbreak of water-borne diseases”.
