This year’s monsoon will be remembered for a number of deaths it caused in many states in India. It has already resulted in the death of 1,400 people apart from the loss of property and livelihood. Kerala floods devastated thousands of homes, displaced human beings, killed cattle and resulted in a rat fever and snake-bite outbreak.
While India is still simmering in its after-effects, an unexpected rise in China’s Tsangpo river followed by discharge of 9,050 cumecs of water in Arunachal’s Siang and Assam’s Brahmaputra has resulted in floods in the North East as well.
Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio took to micro-blogging site Twitter to raise financial aid of Rs 800 crore and to bring attention to the grave situation in the northeastern states.