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Every year, hundreds of people die, thousands become homeless and infrastructure worth millions is washed away in Bihar because of floods. By the time people overcome the trauma, the floods come raging again. The Prime Minister has done the right thing by declaring the floods in Bihar a national calamity.

Unfortunately, flood management seems to be nowhere in the agenda of the State government. Unlike in Andhra Pradesh, the Bihar Government has neither the strategy nor the executive mechanism to manage floods. It is time the Centre urged the Bihar Government to depute its officials to Andhra Pradesh whose disaster management team has a very successful track record..

R. Sekar Visakhapatnam

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