Long-term planning need to address the flood-stricken Districts

 Rain has stopped,   sporadically showering exists with a cloudy shadow sunlights but the district is still on the verge of dangers for the unpredictable time in Raigad and rest of  Maharashtra.

  

  The heavy rain and flood along with landslides across Raigad of Konkan region and western maharashtra adversely affected the lives of thousands of families and businesses in urban and rural set up in the state.

   

      Loss is huge and rehabilitation is urgently needed to compensate the affected people. of the flood-prone districts

     

    Government agencies are surveying, political leaders are touring  the flood-stricken area, and visiting the affected families but financial assistance from the government administration is still in the process of the political disputed basket.

 

    Help and aids are flooding from NGOs and political party individual leaders and humanitarian relief agencies extending their helping hands to comfort the affected families in the form of foods stuff and grocery. 

    

    This kind of timely help is urgently needed to maintain the flood-stricken family's daily needs but long terms planning to have their rehabilitation in a stipulated  time is also needed to continue their businesses and resume their work to support their families. 

    During pandemics, only regulations and rules for maintaining social distance, wearing masks, and washing and sanitising hands, stay at home were the top agendas of government. 

    

    Following floods and landslides, fear of survival and hunger looming larger to the victims in the district. A tremendous amount of paddy crops and fields  of farmers has lost in a flood water. Small vendors like tea stalls, cattles washed away in flooding.

    

   Hopeless situations prevail over the town. Electricity and internet connectivity suffers across the city, no bank, no ATM services for the last 8 days in mahad City.   Muds and debries stack the city streets of mahad.

   

   Widespread fear prevails covid, lockdown, financial loss, and the epidemics in flood stricken mahad, chiplun, satara, sangli, and Kolhapur. 

   Amid covid 19 pandemic,  many lost their businesses and jobs. In the year 2021 corona fear combined with natural calamities added more distress to their life.

   Government should take an urgent cognizance of the situation to address the crisis to compensate the loss  and rehabilitate the flood  fear-stricken families.