The loss to the state and the people from the rain and flash floods this northeast monsoon season may have crossed a staggering Rs 50,000 crore already.
The loss to the state and the people from the rain and flash floods this northeast monsoon season may have crossed a staggering Rs 50,000 crore already. And if the situation persists for the next few days, the total financial loss could escalate to a whopping Rs1 lakh crore, a senior revenue official said.
The official went on to elaborate that the state’s official estimate of the rain damage crossed Rs 9,800 crore in the November rains itself even when such damage was restricted mostly to the state’s infrastructure with roads and causeways broken while the damage to citizens’ lives came mostly in the huts along the Cooum and Adyar rivers being washed away.
But, just in the first two days of December, the deluge was a monumental disaster, inundating as it did houses, largely in south Chennai. Losses suffered by people due to damage to their houses would be much higher. People in Mudichur, Tambaram, Saidapet, Jafferkhanpert and Velachery have lost their computers, cell phones, besides cars.
