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Gaja Cyclone (Waiiting for relief: (Landless labourers make up about 31%…
Gaja Cyclone
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Cyclone worries:
A report in the Down to Earth magazine says that Gaja has been the 10th major cyclone to affect Tamil Nadu in the past 16 years.
The number of cyclones that hit the State between 1891 and 2002 was 54, which works out to 0.49 cyclones per year.
Between 2003 and 2018, this went up to 0.63 per year, a rise of 30%.
In the past two years alone, it has seen the effects of three devastating cyclones:
- Ockhi, which struck in Kanyakumari in June last year
- Vardah, which hit Chennai in late 2016
- And now Gaja
Waiiting for relief:
Landless labourers make up about 31% of the population of these districts, and are the worst hit in times of both drought and cyclones.
This is one of the few regions (Delta region: encompassing the lower reaches of the Cauvery river) in Tamil Nadu which has remained predominantly agrarian.
A big element of this is the destruction is that virtually every house has a thatched roof structure in these villages.
Two weeks after Gaja hit, people are still camped out in temporary shelters
people rendered homeless to be 3.7 lakh, and houses destroyed at 3.4 lakh.
memorandum to the Centre seeking about Rs. 15,000 crore for restoration, rehabilitation and mitigation, and another Rs. 1,431 crore for immediate relief work.
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The union says that the damage to coconut trees as estimated by the State government is about Rs. 3,000 crore.
While farmers want between relief of Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 25,000 per coconut tree, petitions are being filed in district courts that seek an amount of up to Rs. 50,000 per tree.