Punjab has been reeling under floods, especially villages along the rivers Sutlej, Beas, Ravi and Ghaggar are facing flood crisis. This has led to the need for zoning of India’s flood plains.
Flood prone region in Punjab:
Four states (Manipur, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand) have adopted floodplain zoning on paper but implementation is limited. |
What is a floodplain?
India’s Model Bill for Flood Plain Zoning, 1975, defines “floodplain” to include the “water channel, flood channel, and that area of nearby lowland susceptible to flood inundation.” |
Significance of floodplains:
What does Zoning means?
How Zoning is helpful?
Guidelines by Government bodies:
Adverse Effects:
Verifying, please be patient.
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